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Sherry Scheckel
Services are 1 p.m. Monday at Schroder Mortuary, Colona, with visitation two hours prior to service time. Burial is at Dayton Corners Cemetery, Colona. Memorials may be made to the family. She was born July 20, 1952, in Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., to Curtis and Shirley Fredrickson Johnson. She worked at the Rock Island Arsenal as an administrative assistant for 24 years, retiring in 2008. She was a member of The Friends Circle Club in Moline. She enjoyed bicycle riding, taking her grandchildren to the park and her cats. Survivors include her daughter, Ashley Scheckel; grandchildren, Nireque, Taijon and Maleko; siblings, Debbie Miller, Ronnie Johnson and Tammy Stoner. She was preceded in death by her parents; and a brother, Ricky Johnson. Online condolences may be sent to the family at www.schrodermortuary.com. 
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Today is Sunday, May 19, the 139th day of 2013. There are 226 days left in the year.
1863 -- 150 years ago: The Rt. Rev. Harry I. Witherspoon, D.D. Bishop of Illinois, willpreach in Trinity (Episcopal) Church, in this city this evening.
1888 -- 125 years ago: At 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon the Mississippi River flooded itsbanks at Rock Island, destroying the warehouse of the Rock Island Lumber companyand damaging the Lumber Company and arsenal power plant. Total loss isestimated at $100.000.
1913 -- 100 years ago: Residents of South Rock Island township are circulating a petitionfavoring the annexation of that area to the city of Rock Island.
1938 -- 75 years ago: Mrs. Thomas Ackles, of Rock Island, has been elected president ofthe Playcrafters for the next season. She succeeds Warren Leonard.
1963 -- 50 years ago: Some 8,000 people filed through the gates of Rock Island Arsenal on Saturday to view a display of a part of the nation's armed strength. The occasion was theannual observance of Armed Forces Day.
1988 -- 25 years ago: Willis Kuschmann, of Moline, who already has won his laurels as oneof the most artistic men in the Quad-Cities area, has a new hobby. He is deeply involvedin miniature railroading. At the age of 88, when many other seniors are dozing in theirchairs or sitting before the television, Mr. Kuschmann is planning and working on hiscollection.
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