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Wayne Westgard
Funeral services are 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at Zion Lutheran Church, Taylor Ridge. Burial is at the Zion Lutheran Cemetery, where military honors will be presented by VFW Post 1303 and American Legion Posts 200 and 569. Visitation is 3 to 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Wheelan-Pressly Funeral Home, Milan. Memorials may be made to Zion Lutheran Church. Wayne was born on July 17, 1926, in St. Paul, Minn., a son of John and Agnes Skilbred Westgard. He married Ruth Hoag Ziegenhorn on Sept. 11, 1949, in Muscatine. He retired from Iowa Illinois Gas and Electric Company in 1988, where he had worked as a pipe welder for 35 years. In his early years, he worked at the International Harvester Corp. Farmall Works. Wayne also farmed in the Taylor Ridge area. He was a World War II U.S. Army veteran. Wayne was a member of Zion Lutheran Church, Taylor Ridge, Rock Island County Farm Bureau, 84 Inf. Div. Railsplitter Society and life member of Rock Island VFW Post 1303. He had volunteered with the Boy Scouts when his sons were young. Wayne loved to fish and hunt, woodworking and especially enjoyed time with his grandchildren. Survivors include his wife, Ruth; sons and daughter-in-law, John Westgard, Taylor Ridge, and Donald and Zelma Ziegenhorn, Illinois City; grandchildren, Mary Roth (Kevin Horton), Dawn (Darin) Leman, Suzi Ziegenhorn (Eric McCoy), Mike (Shannon) Ziegenhorn, Matt (Janell) Ziegenhorn, Kim (Josh) Ogden, Mandi (Chuck) Durham and Brandon (LeAnn) Ziegenhorn; 16 great-grandchildren; brother, Jerome Westgard, St. Paul; and his sister, Marilyn Whitford, Phoenix, Ariz. He was preceded in death by his parents. Online condolences may be left at www.wheelanpressly.com. 
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Today is Thursday, May 23, the 143rd day of 2013. There are 222 days left in the year.
1863 — 150 years ago: Messrs. J. and M. Rosenfield have moved their leather and hidestore to the building formerly occupied by Temple Bufords's store. They buy and sellhides, pelts, furs, wool, beeswax, lard, tallow, etc.
1888 -- 125 years ago: The Rock Island Lumber Company has recovered 5,000 of the8,000 logs that were carried away by the Mississippi River flood last week.
1913 -- 100 years ago: John J. Ullemeyer has been awarded the contract to furnish RockIsland fire and police department members with uniforms, at the city's expense.
1938 -- 75 years ago: Work on Aledo's new $38,000 swimming pool was started thismorning at South Park when ground for the pool was broken by Mayor John W. Murphy.
1963 -- 50 years ago: Students and teacher at Moline High School called today "MissLeona Day" day at the school in honor of the government teacher who retires at theend of the school term. Although she's been teaching for 43 years at the school, Miss Dayfound a new way of arriving at the school this morning. At 7:30 a.m., a police squad carpulled up in front of Miss Day's home and escorted her to school. A caravan of students' cars joined the procession along the way.
1988 -- 25 years ago: Barbecue cooking and riverfront antics are planned for Discover the
River Day Saturday in Leach Park, Bettendorf. A 5K run, wind surfing, a canoe race, hogcalling and more will round out the day under the Interstate 74 bridge.
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