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Jillane Allison
Services are 11 a.m. Monday, Jan. 7, at Bethany Lutheran Church in Woodhull. Burial is at the Alpha Cemetery. Visitation is 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday at Peterson-Wallin-Knox Funeral Home in Alpha. Memorials may be left to the Cornerstone Reformed Church of Carbondale, and online condolences can be made at www.petersonwallinknox.com. She was born Aug. 17, 1952, in Galesburg, to W. John and Sylvia Rehn Allison. She graduated from AlWood High School in 1970, Monmouth College in 1974, and later received her master's degree in English and creative writing from the University of Illinois in Chicago. She married William Gasper Oct. 31, 1975. Jillane was employed in the English Department at the University of Illinois in Chicago for several years. She taught high school English and junior college English in Florida. She most recently was employed as an administrative assistant in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. She was a member of the Cornerstone Reformed Church in Carbondale and enjoyed writing poetry, exercising, gardening, reading and spending time with family. She is survived by one daughter, Nathalie Gasper, Chicago; her mother, Sylvia Petrovich, Alpha; two sisters, Debbie (Mike) Dodge, Loveland, Colo., Jane (Basil) Orechwa, Hustisford, Wis.; her special friend and companion, Dave Blomeyer, Carbondale; two nieces, Maria and Laura; two nephews, Jesse and Braden. She was preceded in death by her father; her stepmother, Gloria; and one brother, David. 
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Today is Tuesday, June 18, the 169th day of 2013. There are 196 days left in the year.
1863 -- 150 years ago: Fanatics have grown wonderfully civil since the president snubbedthem by revoking Burnside's infamous attack upon the freedom of the press.
1888 -- 125 years ago: The Interstate baseball league has collapsed, leaving Davenport'sleading team without a league connection.
1913 -- 100 years ago: Passengers were stunned yesterday when lightning struck a LongView street car at 9th Ave. and 25th St.
1938 -- 75 years ago: X-ray examinations today traced the trouble with Dizzy Dean's$250,000 pitching arm to a pulled muscle back of his right shoulder blade.
1963 -- 50 years ago: Radio station WQAD in Moline is being considered by the NationalCivil Defense Office for selection as a "secured communication center" Mrs. Gault,executive deputy director of the Moline Civil Defense unit reported today.
1988 -- 25 years ago: "Marketplace 29 A.D." an unusual vacation Bible school programthat will allow children to live three days as people did during the Bible Times June 21-23. The three day program, is a joint project of Aldersgate and Bethel-Wesley UnitedMethodist churches.
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