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Donald 'Don' 'Peelie' Pilarski
Funeral Mass will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 26, at Holy Trinity Polish National Catholic Church in Kewanee. Father Jerry Rafalko will officiate. Visitation will be from 9:30 a.m. until the time of services at the church. Military honors will be accorded at the church by the Kewanee Veterans Council. Cremation will follow the services with family inurnment in the Mount Olivet Cemetery, Kewanee, at a later date. Memorials maybe directed to Holy Trinity Polish National Catholic Church. The Schueneman-Tumbleson Funeral Home, Kewanee, is in charge of arrangements. Don was born Aug. 13, 1930, in Kewanee the youngest of 10 children born to Stanley and Sophia Lampowski Pilarski. Don graduated from Kewanee High School in 1948 and served in the Korean War as a medic from 1951 to 1953. He would later be employed by Kewanee Machinery and Conveyor for 35 years; retiring in 1992. He was a member of the St. Francis of Assisi Parish and the Kewanee American Legion Post No. 31. Don was an avid golfer, winning the City Am Tournament 10 times in 25 years and the Kewanee Labor Day Tournaments five times. He qualified for the Public Links Golf Tournament in 1959 and 1960. Don was inducted into the Baker Park Golf Hall of Fame in 1988. He enjoyed fishing, gardening, bird-watching and the Chicago Cubs and had been a referee at junior high and high school football and basketball games throughout the region. Don married Shirley Dura March 14, 1992, in Kewanee. She survives along with a sister, Margaret (Irwin) Staab, Silvis; his children, Janelle (Bill) Leaf, Kewanee, Karen Pilarski, Tucson, Ariz., Gregory (Adelina) Pilarski, Bay Point, Calif., Catherine Pilarski, Indianapolis, Ind., Nicole (Adam) Smith, Newburgh, Ind.; and a stepson, Michael Dura, Springfield, Ill. Also surviving are his grandchildren, Rick Leaf, Kewanee, RaeAnn Pilarski and Nate Kaufmann, Tucson, and Aidan Pilarski, Bay Point, as well as numerous nieces and nephews. Don was preceded in death by his parents; sisters, Anastasia Husar, Cecilia Pellan, Mary Webb, Helen Ptasnik and Frances Tumbleson; and brothers, Joe Pillars, John and Leo Pilarski. Private online condolences may be left for the family at www.schuenemantumblesonfuneralhome.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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