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Virginia Adams
Burial will be at Greenview Memorial Gardens, East Moline. Visitation will be 9:30 a.m. until service time Friday at the funeral home. Mrs. Adams died Thursday, Jan. 10, 2013, at Champaign County Nursing Home, Champaign, Ill. Memorials may be made to the First Baptist Church, East Moline, where she had been a member. Virginia Birkhead was born Dec. 19, 1915, in Winfield, Mo., the daughter of Mahlon and Maude Miller Birkhead. She married C. Clifford Adams on Aug. 23, 1947, in East Moline. He died July 5, 2003. She was a graduate of Missouri Business School, St. Louis, and had worked for Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. in St. Louis. Survivors include her sons, Robert, Prescott, Ariz., and Kent, Champaign; three grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; two great-great-grandchildren; sister-in-law, Muriel Birkhead, Missouri. She was preceded in death by her parents; husband; brothers, Paul and Miller Birkhead. Online condolences may be left for the family at www.vanhoe.com. 
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Today is Friday, May 24, the 144th day of 2013. There are 221 days left in the year.
1863 -- 150 years ago: A military escort will be at the square at 9 a.m. tomorrow forthe funeral of Lieut. Joseph Eaton. The county judge is absent in Chicago, which willaccount for his not being in the procession.
1888 -- 125 years ago: Rock Island's City Council last night appropriated $95,000 forexpenses for the 1888 and 1889 fiscal year.
1913 -- 100 years ago: Mrs. F.W. Reimers last night was re-elected president of the RockIsland Musical Club at a meeting in the New Harper Hotel.
1938 -- 75 years ago: Seven members of Boy Scout Troop 21 got their Eagle badges lastnight. They were Ralph Hurt, Robert Nelson, Howard Schersten, Cecil Nelson, RobertFryxell, Clarence Stone and Rollin Hurt.
1963 -- 50 years ago: Mayor Morris Muhleman has resorted to a form letter in an effort toanswer objections to the wheel tax increase. "It was my hope that I could, in some way,restore the faith of the citizens in our city. In order to do this I knew I must face the factthat I would become very unpopular."All they are trying to do is protect the citizensproperty and build their town.
1988 -- 25 years ago: RICCA, the Rock Island County Council on Addictions, inconjunction with the Quad City Downs, will hold its annual "Night at the Races" June 2.The benefit "Night at the Races" will raise funds locally to assist in maintaining the twohalfway houses, New Hope Lodge (for women) and Beacon House (for men).
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