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Elsie Wright
Memorial services will be announced at a later date. Born in Missouri on April 25, 1911, she was the daughter of Ella and William Carmichael. In 1928, she married Archie Trask, and in 1970, she married Howard Wright. Elsie always was very active and participated in the Senior Olympics and enjoyed playing shuffle board for many years in Naples. In 2005, at the age of 94, she won the Granny Grand Prix golf-cart races in Davenport, sponsored by Dwyer and Michaels, radio personalities. She dearly loved her family and was proud of her six generations. She leaves behind her son and his wife, Jerry and Sue Trask, Naples; a sister, Bobbie Lutz, Missouri; several grandchildren; great-grandchildren; and great-great-grandchildren. Elsie was preceded in death by her husbands, Archie Trask and Howard Wright; son, Jack Trask; and daughters, Betty McCubbin and Carol Sevier; grandsons, Michael McCubbin, Nicky Trask and Terry Trask; granddaughter, Cindy McCubbin; great-grandson, Michael Thompson; brothers, Virgil, Harold, Grant, Cecil, Noble and Billy Carmichael; and sisters, Madelyn Thomas, Blondina Baccus and Edna Lewis. 
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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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