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Shirley Kalahar
Memorial services will be held 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 3, at Silvis United Methodist Church, 1301 Second Ave., Silvis. Visitation will be held from 1 to 2 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 3, at the church. Arrangements were entrusted to Burkhart-Eighner Funeral Home, Sandwich, Ill. For more information or to sign the online guest book go to www.EighnerFuneralHomes.com or call (815) 786-2165. Memorial donations in Shirley's name can be made to the University of Iowa Foundation for the benefit of the Iowa Lions Eye Bank Donor Memorial Fund. She was born Oct. 21, 1928, in Fort Dodge, Iowa, the daughter of Leonard and Lucille Stark Olson. She married Donald M. Kalahar on Feb. 15, 1947. She was a teacher for 36.5 years in Iowa and the Moline school system. After retiring, she became a member of a TGIF teacher's luncheon group and enjoyed their monthly luncheons. She loved traveling with her husband and her daughters and visited 47 states. She also loved music. She was a piano teacher and cherished wintering in New Orleans with her daughter where she listened to live music as often as she could. She passed away while visiting her daughter and son-in-law in the New Orleans area. Shirley volunteered for 13 years at Illini Hospital in Silvis. She was a member of the Silvis and Hampton United Methodist churches. Shirley enjoyed having coffee every morning with her friends at the East Moline Maid-Rite. She is survived by two daughters, Sheryl Kalahar Burley, New Boston, and Paddy Kalahar (Leo) Lossett, Madisonville, La.; two brothers, Dennis (Karen) Olson, Fountain Valley, Calif., and Stephen (Debbie) Olson, Spring Hope, N.C.; one sister, Debi (Randy) Goslin, LeClaire; several nieces, nephews, great-nieces and -nephews; and one brother-in-law, Harold (Oney) Kalahar, Dayton, Iowa, and one sister-in-law, Doris Kuehnast, Humboldt, Iowa, twins. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; two brothers, Donald Olson and Rex Olson; and brother-in-law, Marvin Kuehnast. 
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Today is Tuesday, June 18, the 169th day of 2013. There are 196 days left in the year.
1863 -- 150 years ago: Fanatics have grown wonderfully civil since the president snubbedthem by revoking Burnside's infamous attack upon the freedom of the press.
1888 -- 125 years ago: The Interstate baseball league has collapsed, leaving Davenport'sleading team without a league connection.
1913 -- 100 years ago: Passengers were stunned yesterday when lightning struck a LongView street car at 9th Ave. and 25th St.
1938 -- 75 years ago: X-ray examinations today traced the trouble with Dizzy Dean's$250,000 pitching arm to a pulled muscle back of his right shoulder blade.
1963 -- 50 years ago: Radio station WQAD in Moline is being considered by the NationalCivil Defense Office for selection as a "secured communication center" Mrs. Gault,executive deputy director of the Moline Civil Defense unit reported today.
1988 -- 25 years ago: "Marketplace 29 A.D." an unusual vacation Bible school programthat will allow children to live three days as people did during the Bible Times June 21-23. The three day program, is a joint project of Aldersgate and Bethel-Wesley UnitedMethodist churches.
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