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Dorothy Lerch
A Mass of Christian Burial will be 10 a.m. Monday, Feb. 18, at St. Pius X Church, Rock Island. Visitation will be 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday at Rafferty Funeral Home, 2111 1st St. A, Moline. Burial will be at Rock Island National Cemetery, Arsenal Island. Memorials can be made to Trinity VNA. Jean was born April 25, 1927, in Quincy, Ill., the daughter of Russell and Ophelia Kemper Myers. She married Donald R. Lerch on Feb. 7, 1953, in Rock Island. Mrs. Lerch was a copy writer and on-air personality for WHBF TV and radio station for 10 years. She later worked as a trainer for her husband's office equipment business, Lerch & Thonn Inc. She was corporate vice president and secretary when she retired in 1998 after 28 years. Jean's interest in speech and radio began at Quincy High School, where she graduated in 1945. She earned a B.A. degree from the University of Iowa in 1949. While there, she was president of Currier Hall, a residence for women, and was a member of Zeta Phi Eta, an honorary speech fraternity, and Mortar Board, a senior honorary society for women. Jean was a member of St. Maria Goretti Parish, Coal Valley, Oakwood Country Club, Coal Valley and Lexington Country Club, Fort Myers, Fla. In the past, she was a longtime member of the Junior Board of Rock Island, Trinity VNA and was chairman of the 25th Mardi Gras Ball. Jean enjoyed bridge, golf and cooking. Survivors include her husband, Donald; daughters, Tracey (Robert) Cantarutti, Palatine, Ill., Debra Powell, Rock Island, and Tina Jacobs, Mount Carroll, Ill.; six grandchildren, Michael, Angela and Alexandra Cantarutti, Jennifer Powell and Rebecca and Madison Jacobs; great-granddaughters, Francesca and Olivia; and sisters, Marilyn Schmidt and Terry Moore, both of Quincy. She was preceded in death by a brother, Russell. Condolences may be left at www.RaffertyFunerals.com. 
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Today is Saturday, May 25, the 145th day of 2013. There are 220 days left in the year.
1863 -- 150 years ago: The annual review of the fire department of this city took placeyesterday and made a fine showing with machines and hose carts in tip-top order.
1888 -- 125 years ago: Last night's prayer meeting at Central Presbyterian Church wascalled off due to water in the basement, residue of last week's flood.
1913 -- 100 years ago: The junior class of Rock Island High School will hold a riverexcursion on the steamer St. Paul next Tuesday.
1938 -- 75 years ago: The 75th Anniversary of the Rock Island Arsenal today finds thenation's largest ordinance manufacturing plant filling many important orders for the army.
1963 -- 50 years ago: Miss Patrice Daly, Rock Island, a senior at Rock Island HighSchool, won second place in the recent state public speaking contest held in Peoria underthe auspices of the Knights of Pythias.
1988 -- 25 years ago: Hampton's sesquicentennial committee and the Hampton HistoricalSociety have scheduled a full slate of activities, which will be held throughout the year, to celebrate the village's 150th birthday. The first celebration will be the Memorial Dayprogram at 10 a.m. May 30, at the Brettun and Black Store Museum on River Road. Therewill be a sesquicentennial display.
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