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Nellie Baraks Fuelling
Services are 11 a.m. Tuesday at Trinity Lutheran Church, Coal Valley, with the Rev. Robert Hagen officiating. Burial is at Coal Valley Cemetery. Visitation is 4 to 7 p.m. Monday at Trimble Funeral and Cremation Center, Coal Valley. Memorials may be made to Trinity Lutheran Church or Hope Creek Care Center. The former Nellie Marie Maas was born March 16, 1914, in Moline, the daughter of Henry and Annie Kraklow Maas. She married Raymond Baraks in 1934, in Sycamore, Ill. He died in 1961. She married Martin Fuelling in 1968, in Coal Valley. He died in 1994. She was an inhalation therapist at the former Moline Lutheran Hospital, and previously worked at the former Oak Glen Home. She ran the roller rink in Coal Valley for several years during World War II. She was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church, Coal Valley, and a former member of St. Paul Lutheran Church, Orion; Orion Women's Club and McGuffey's Readers. She was very active in the community and volunteered in many areas, including Lutheran Hospital Auxiliary, Bishop Hill Museum, PTA, 4-H, Boy Scouts and typing braille. Nellie is survived by four children and their spouses, Joan and Keith Glaus, Coal Valley, Nancy and Roger Smart, East Moline, Fred and Jan Baraks, Warsaw, Mo., and David and Georgia Baraks, Coal Valley; 10 grandchildren; 18 great-grandchildren; and 11 great-great-grandchildren. She also is survived by five stepchildren and their spouses, Ann and David Collier, Milan, Bob and Dorothy Fuelling, Milwaukee, Wis., Dorothy Stewart, Chicago, John and Ann Fuelling, Moline, and Mark and Mary Fuelling, Geneseo; and seven stepgrandchildren and their families. She was preceded in death by her husbands; a sister, Mildred Swider; and brothers, Ralph, Glenn and Donald Maas. Nellie's family invites friends to share stories and condolences and light a free virtual candle in her memory at www.TrimbleFuneralHomes.com. 
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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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