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Brenda Bates
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Monday, March 4, at the Cambridge Chapel of Stackhouse-Moore Funeral Services. The Rev. Randall Swanson will officiate. Visitation will be from 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home. Cremation will take place after the service, and a private family inurnment service will be held at a later date. Memorials may be made to the American Cancer Society. Brenda Peterson was born Feb. 26, 1952, in Peoria, Ill., the daughter of Eugene and Bonnie Whitmer Peterson. She was raised by her grandmother, Catherine Whitmer. She was educated in Kewanee schools and graduated from Kewanee High School in 1970. Brenda attended Western Illinois University in Macomb. Her marriage to Don Bates took place on April 18, 1971 in Galva. The couple moved to Cambridge in 1975. Brenda worked for 18 years at Cambridge Elementary School as a teacher's aide in the Title One reading program. She was a member of the Cambridge United Methodist Church. She enjoyed reading and loved the beach, teaching kids and her grandchildren. Those surviving are her husband, Don; two daughters and sons-in-law, Angie and Howard W. Dennis, Elizabethton, Tenn., and Caty and Matthew Fink, Emerald Isle, N.C.; one son, Brandon Bates, Silvis; two grandchildren, Lily Bates and Caleb Dennis, and one on the way. Other survivors include her father, Eugene Peterson, Alta, Ill.; mother, Bonnie Thompson, Sandwich, Ill.; one sister, Nancy Patterson, Orion; and one brother, Chuck Peterson, Kewanee. Her grandparents preceded her in death. Video tribute may be viewed and condolences expressed by visiting Brenda's obituary at stackhousemoore.com. 
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Today is Thursday, May 23, the 143rd day of 2013. There are 222 days left in the year.
1863 — 150 years ago: Messrs. J. and M. Rosenfield have moved their leather and hidestore to the building formerly occupied by Temple Bufords's store. They buy and sellhides, pelts, furs, wool, beeswax, lard, tallow, etc.
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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