Hugh Ferguson


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Posted Online: Jan. 05, 2013, 5:13 pm
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Hugh T. Ferguson, 92, of Davenport, died Jan. 3, 2013, at Clarissa C. Cook Hospice House, Bettendorf.
Services are 11:30 a.m. Tuesday at Runge, Davenport, with visitation 9:30 a.m. to services. Burial is at Rock Island National Cemetery, Arsenal Island.
He was born Sept. 21, 1920. He was a World War II Army veteran. He married Lois McQuerry on March 6, 1943.
Surviving are his wife; children, Bonnie Wetzel, Las Cruces, N.M., Thomas, Mill Creek, Wash., Douglas, Davenport; seven grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.














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