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Dale DePaepe
Funeral services are 10 a.m. Friday at Wheelan-Pressly Funeral Home, Rock Island. Visitation is 4 to 7 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home. Memorials may be made to the Quad City Animal Welfare Center, Milan. Dale was born June 28, 1939, in Rock Island, a son of Arthur and Mamie Brennan DePaepe. He married Cheryl A. Eihl on Nov. 30, 1974, in Milan. He worked as a meat cutter for Eagle Foods for many years and retired in 2001. Dale was a member of the Meat Cutter's Union Local 431, Milan Rifle Club, National Rifle Association and the Police Association. For Dale, family was first; he loved his family. He enjoyed his daily trips to the donut shop, sending and receiving emails and driving through Sunset Park. He also enjoyed telling jokes, boating, watching football and was a NASCAR fan. Survivors include his wife, Cheryl; children, Kelli DePaepe, Anaheim, Calif., Kevin (Pam) DePaepe, Whitewater, Wis., and Karri DePaepe Smith (Tim Smith), Las Vegas, Nev.; grandchildren, Elizabeth (Ben) DeBisschop, Colleen (Ryan) Estand, Thomas VanDeWalle, Claire Sherman, Jonathan DePaepe, Heather DePaepe, Ian Smith, Leah Bell, Sarah Sennett and Amber DePaepe; great-grandchildren, Cathleen, Benjamin, Julia, Abigail, Eleanor and Anthony; sisters, Beverly Hamlin, Florida, Linda (Lawrence) Diedrich, South Carolina, and Nancy (Richard) Ballinger, Rock Island; and his good friend, Mickey Bowden, Rock Island. He was preceded in death by his parents and several brothers and sisters. The family would like to thank Dr. Humphrey Wong, Genesis Hospice and his visiting nurse, Barry DePorter, for the excellent and loving care given to Dale during his illness. Dale's children would also like to thank granddaughter, Elizabeth, for all the love and care given to PaPa. Online condolence may be left at wheelanpressly.com. 
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Today is Saturday, May 18, the 138th day of 2013. There are 227 days left in the year.
1863 -- 150 years ago: A large variety of children's wagons and gigs have arrived in thecity and are being sold at war prices.
1888 -- 125 years ago: All Rock Island retail houses, with the exception of a clothingstore and a jewelry store, have agreed to early closing hours during the summer months.The store will be closed at 8 p.m.
1913 -- 100 years ago: Baseball enthusiasts in Rock Island are attempting to raise$20,000 to keep the Island City Park open, despite the fact that the city has no franchise inorganized baseball this year.
1938 -- 75 years ago: The organization of a third rural young people's unit will beundertaken tomorrow night at the Milan Presbyterian Church, with Mrs. Mildred K.Wellman, home advisor, and Robert Smith, county farm adviser in charge.
1963 -- 50 years ago: Deere & Co. will begin a "big switch" on its telephone systemMonday morning. The extension numbers of all 1,600 telephones on the firm's EastMoline and Moline exchanges will be changed Monday morning.
1988 -- 25 years ago: East Moline's June Jamboree VI -- Nostalgia Days, will seemlike a '60s revival with the appearance of stars like Bobby Vee, Freddie Cannon, PeterNoone, Turtles, The Grass Roots and Lou Christie. This year's festival has beenexpanded to five days, June 22-26, at the Northeast Park complex.
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