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Myrtle Stang
Burial will be at Greenview Memorial Gardens, East Moline. Visitation will be two hours prior to services at the funeral home. Mrs. Stang died on Saturday, Dec. 29, 2012, at Hope Creek Care Center, East Moline. Memorials may be made to First Baptist Church, Silvis. Myrtle Kommer was born on March 25, 1919, in Clover Township, Henry County, Woodhull, the daughter of Elmer and Otillia "Tillie" Hulstrom Kommer. She graduated from Cambridge schools. She married Theodore Stang on Saturday, Aug. 21, 1937, in Des Moines, Iowa, by the Rev. Vern Clevelvan of the Christian Church, in the minister's home. Mr. Stang died on July 11, 1985. She lived in Moline, East Moline and Silvis since 1936. She worked for Sears & Roebuck for 20 years, retiring in 1974. Survivors include her daughter, Janet (Gary) Gustafson, Orion; son, Ted (Mimi) Stang, Salem, Ore.; five grandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren; sister, Dorothy Smith, Seattle, Wash. She was preceded in death by her parents; husband; sister, Lorraine Carlson; and brothers, Rex, Roy and Fred Kommer. Online condolences may be left for the family at www.vanhoe.com. 
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Today is Saturday, May 18, the 138th day of 2013. There are 227 days left in the year.
1863 -- 150 years ago: A large variety of children's wagons and gigs have arrived in thecity and are being sold at war prices.
1888 -- 125 years ago: All Rock Island retail houses, with the exception of a clothingstore and a jewelry store, have agreed to early closing hours during the summer months.The store will be closed at 8 p.m.
1913 -- 100 years ago: Baseball enthusiasts in Rock Island are attempting to raise$20,000 to keep the Island City Park open, despite the fact that the city has no franchise inorganized baseball this year.
1938 -- 75 years ago: The organization of a third rural young people's unit will beundertaken tomorrow night at the Milan Presbyterian Church, with Mrs. Mildred K.Wellman, home advisor, and Robert Smith, county farm adviser in charge.
1963 -- 50 years ago: Deere & Co. will begin a "big switch" on its telephone systemMonday morning. The extension numbers of all 1,600 telephones on the firm's EastMoline and Moline exchanges will be changed Monday morning.
1988 -- 25 years ago: East Moline's June Jamboree VI -- Nostalgia Days, will seemlike a '60s revival with the appearance of stars like Bobby Vee, Freddie Cannon, PeterNoone, Turtles, The Grass Roots and Lou Christie. This year's festival has beenexpanded to five days, June 22-26, at the Northeast Park complex.
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