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Marjorie Hemenway
Services for Marjorie A. Hemenway, 70, Bettendorf, are 2 p.m. Monday at the Unitarian Church, Davenport, with graveside committal services and inurnment 11 a.m. at Davenport Memorial Park.
Cunnick-Collins, Davenport, is in charge of arrangements.
She died Saturday, Nov. 23, 2002, at her home following a lengthy illness.
She was born Oct. 28, 1932. She married
Richard E. Hemenway Nov. 25, 1953.
Survivors include her husband; daughters, Martha Durham, Park Ridge, Ill., Judith Walloch, Pekin, Ill.; son, Thomas, San Antonio, Texas; and eight grandchildren.
Cleland `Lee' Jolly
Cleland 'Lee' Jolly, 80, of Davenport, died Monday, Nov. 25, 2002, at Genesis East, Davenport.
Services are 10 a.m. Friday at Runge Mortuary, Davenport. Burial is in Hillcrest cemetery , Moravia, Iowa. Visitation is 5-8 p.m. today and one hour prior to services.
He was born Nov. 10, 1922, in Moravia, to Freeman and Janetta Carlson Jolly. He married
Veletta Tarbell Nov. 18, 1945.
Surviving are his wife; daughters, Janice Straight, Des Moines, Iowa, JoLinda Jolly, Davenport; son, James Jolly, Crystal Lake, Ill.; three grandchildren; one great-granddaughter; one sister.
Robert Koestner
Services for Robert J. Koestner, 88, Davenport, are 11 a.m. Friday at St. Paul the Apostle, Davenport. Burial is in Mt. Calvary cemetery , Davenport.
Visitation is 4-7 p.m. today at Halligan-McCabe-DeVries with 7 p.m. prayers, and 9:30 a.m. until Mass Friday at the church.
He died Nov. 25, 2002, at his home.
He married
Evelyn Long in 1940. She died in 1993.
Surviving are daughters, Janet McGivern and Eileen Schloemer, both Bettendorf, JoAnn Ehrecke, Davenport; son, Dick Koestner, Davenport; 14
Eloise Kohle
Eloise E. Kohle, 86, Bettendorf, died Monday, Nov. 25, 2002, at her home.
Services are 1 p.m. Friday at Runge, Davenport. Burial is in Pine Hill cemetery . Visitation is 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday at the mortuary. Memorials may be made to the church or Iowa A.F. TTT.
She was born Dec. 19, 1915, in Bettendorf.
Eloise Kohle had been employed by the late Dr. M.M. Benfer M.D. and later by Urological Associates P.C., Davenport, prior to retirement.
Memberships include Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, Davenport; Iowa A.F. TTT; Professional Secretaries, Black Hawk Chapter; Davenport Eastern Star 178 and Daughters of King of Trinity Episcopal Cathedral.
Survivors include cousins.
Mildred Schroeder
Mildred L. Schroeder, 92, of Davenport, died Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2002, at her home.
Visitation will be 2-5 p.m. Sunday at McGinnis, Chambers & Sass Funeral Home, Bettendorf, where further arrangements are pending.
Charles Shaw
Services for Charles M. Shaw, 74, Davenport, are 10 a.m. Saturday, at St. Anthony's Catholic, Davenport. Cremation rites were accorded. Burial is at a later date.
Visitation is 4 to 8 p.m. Friday at Halligan-McCabe-DeVries, Davenport, with a 7 p.m. prayer service.
He died Nov. 24, 2002, at Genesis, Davenport.
He was born April 23, 1928, in Ottumwa, Iowa, to John and Mary Shaw. He married
Barbara Bedford June 24, 1950, in Davenport.
Surviving are wife, Barbara; seven children including, Dr. Connie Shaw, Bettendorf; 14 grandchildren; three brothers; a sister.
Gregory Stahler
Services for Gregory A. Stahler, 39, Davenport, formerly Texas, are 11 a.m. Saturday at Holy Family Catholic, Davenport. Burial is in Mt. Calvary cemetery , Davenport.
Visitation is 2-7 p.m. Friday at Halligan-McCabe-DeVries, Davenport, with a 7 p.m. prayer service.
He died Nov. 25, 2002, at home. He was born Aug. 13, 1963, in Davenport. He married
Angie VanCamp.
Surviving are wife; children, Greg, Brad, Drew, Nick and Alice, all at home; father, Carl, Bettendorf; 12 siblings including, Mary Beth, Bettendorf, Patty, Michelle, Carl, Thomas, Jon and Steve, all Davenport, Michael, Iowa.
Ruth Wilson
Ruth W. Wilson, 98, of Davenport, died Sunday, Nov. 24, 2002, at the Kahl Home for the Aged and Infirm, Davenport.
Services are 11 a.m. Saturday at Weerts Funeral Home, Davenport. Visitation is 10 a.m. to service time at the funeral home, where further arrangements are pending.
Margaret Durey
Margaret B. Durey, 86, of Rock Island, died of heart failure Friday, Nov. 15, 2002, at Marin General Hospital, Greenbrae, Calif.
A Mass of the Resurrection will be celebrated at 11 a.m. Wednesday at St. Pius X Catholic Church, Rock Island. Burial is in Rock Island Memorial Park cemetery . Visitation is one hour prior to the service Wednesday at the church. Wheelan Funeral Home, Rock Island, is in charge of arrangements. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the church.
Margaret Barbara Lebermann was born March 14, 1916, in Rock Island, the daughter of Ernest and Anna Schorpp Lebermann. Margaret married
Lucius E. Durey Feb. 25, 1938, in Rock Island. The couple divorced in 1959.
Margaret graduated from Rock Island High School, and during her life was employed by Royal Neighbors of America, Hi-Way Inn, Book Nook and for 25 years by the First National Bank, all of Rock Island. She retired from the bank in 1981.
From 1972 to 1997 she did volunteer work at the former Franciscan Hospital and was a pastoral care befriender for many of those years. Until recently she was active at St. Pius Church. For the past few months she has been visiting her daughter in California.
She is survived by her daughter, Janet Durey Alleyn, San Anselmo, Calif.; a sister-in-law, Ferne Lebermann, Rock Island; special cousin, Joseph Schorpp, DeWitt, Iowa; special friend, Carol Ginneberge, Rock Island; and many others who loved her.
Theola Kieffer
Theola E. Kieffer, 92, of Rock Island, died Saturday, Nov. 23, 2002, at Silver Cross Nursing Center, Rock Island.
Arrangements are pending at Wheelan Funeral Home, Rock Island.
James Murphy
James Walter Murphy, 76, of Apache Junction, Ariz., and Iowa City, Iowa, died Saturday, Nov. 16, 2002, in Mesa, Ariz., of congestive heart failure after a 29-year history of heart disease.
At his request, his body was donated for medical research and cremation. There was no public service.
He was born Nov. 25, 1925, in Davenport, to Walter Gifford and Lillian DeWolf Murphy. He attended school in Rock Island where he participated in band, Glee Club, track and basketball, graduating in 1943.
As a member of the U.S. Marines from 1943 to 1946, he served aboard the USS Europa, a German prize of war, transporting troops home to the United States. He attended Western Michigan University in 1943 and in 1949 he graduated from St. Ambrose, Davenport, and married
Joan Paulsen. They were the parents of four children and later divorced.
Jim loved music and over the years directed church choirs and was a vocal soloist with a beautiful baritone voice. For 39 years, his life work was spent in education as a music teacher and media specialist. From 1950 to 1966, he taught elementary and junior high vocal music and band in Rock Island. He received his master's degree in library science from the University of Iowa in 1969 and served as a media specialist in South East Junior High, Iowa City, from 1969 to 1982. He then returned to this first love, elementary band, until 1989 and ended his career as media specialist at Iowa City High.
A dedicated family man, Jim was never idle. He found a variety of temporary and part-time jobs to provide more for his family, and he also officiated in basketball, wrestling, baseball and softball. For 12 summers he worked in construction and he tuned pianos for 35 years.
Always a competitive sports enthusiast, he played basketball, handball and golf, and enjoyed bowling, jogging and biking.
In 1973, he married
Jo Ellis in Iowa City. They retired in 1991 and became full-time RVers, spending nine wonderful years wintering in warm places, traveling from coast to coast, visiting family and friends and sightseeing in their travel trailer.
During retirement, music continued to be a big part of Jim's life, and he continued to direct choirs and choruses and entertaining with vocal solos whenever the opportunity presented itself. He enjoyed square dancing, but in 1993, he discovered clogging while wintering in Texas and he and Jo clogged all over the country.
He loved the Superstition Mountains east of Mesa and in 2000, he and Jo made Apache Junction their home base with a view of those mountains. Part of every summer was spent in the Iowa City area. This past August, they pulled their travel trailer from Iowa City to the West Coast and made their way to northern Washington, camping on beaches and enjoying the ocean views before returning to Apache Junction Sept. 30.
Over the years, Jim pursued many hobbies, including calligraphy and stained glass and, in the last 17 years, had completed more than 70 meticulously cross-stitched pieces, most of them presented as gifts to family and friends.
Jim is survived by his wife, Jo; sons, Dan, Gloucester, Mass., and Steve and his wife, Diane, Iowa City; daughters, Connie Pemberton, Tulsa, Okla., and Marcia Murphy, Iowa City; stepsons, Brad Ellis and Dean Ellis, both of Colorado; stepdaughter, DeAnn Ellis, Chicago; beloved grandchildren, Jesse Boyd, Tulsa, Megan Murphy, Hamilton, Mass., and Seth Murphy, Iowa City; sister, Mary Martha McClenahan and her husband, Dave, St. Petersburg, Fla.; and many nieces, nephews and cousins. He also is survived by two families very close to his heart, Molly Abraham and Dave Walz and daughters, Katie, Elsie and Tessa, all of Iowa City, and Don and Cecilia Smullin and children, Matteo, AnnaLisa, Carolyn, Angelica and Katrinia, all of Blaine, Wash.
Jim was preceded in death by his parents; his only brother, Laurence Murphy; and a nephew and niece.
Margaret Ohrstrom
Margaret T. Ohrstrom, 94, of Rock Island, died Saturday, Nov. 23, 2002, at Trinity Medical Center, West Campus, Rock Island.
Services will be 10 a.m., Tuesday at St. Joseph Catholic Church, Rock Island. Burial will be in Rock Island Memorial Park cemetery . Visitation will be one hour prior to the service at the church. Wheelan Funeral Home, Rock Island, is assisting the family with arrangements. Memorials may be made to the church or to a favorite charity.
Margaret Mandel was born June 15, 1908, in Rock Island, the daughter of Richard John and Lucille Dowdal Mandel. She married
Raymond H. Ohrstrom, May 28, 1927, in Rock Island. He died Mar. 22, 1962.
Margaret had attended business college and worked as an inspector at the former Servus Rubber Co., Rock Island. She retired in 1972 after 40 years of service.
She was a life member of St. Joseph Catholic Church, Rock Island, and had been a member of its Altar and Rosary Society. Margaret loved her family and especially her grandchildren.
Survivors include a son and daughter-in-law, Raymond C. 'Ole' and Margaret Ohrstrom, Rock Island; grandchildren, Cynthia Gilroy, Michele Kuberski, Gary, Lawrence and Carl Ohrstrom; 15 great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren.
Willie Washington
Services for Willie Andrew Washington, 71, of Rock Island, are 11 a.m. Wednesday, at Second Baptist Church, Rock Island. Burial is in National cemetery , Arsenal Island.
Visitation is 10 a.m. to services. Arrangements are by Orr's, Rock Island.
He died Friday, Nov. 22, 2002, at his home.
He was born Aug. 9, 1931, to Andrew Jr. and Charres Washington. Surviving are a sister, Earnestine Anderson, niece, Chicquita Nelson, both of Cleveland, Ohio; nephews, Derrick Williams, Rock Island, Charles Mitchell, California; two great-nieces.
Jeremy Beswick-Wolfe
Jeremy Royal Beswick-Wolfe, infant son of Genny M. Beswick and Aaron Wolfe, both of Moline, died Thursday, Nov. 21, 2002, at St. Francis Medical Center, Peoria.
Private services are pending at Hodgson Funeral Home, Rock Island.
Jeremy was born Nov. 20, 2002, in Peoria.
He is survived by his parents; maternal grandparents, Paul and Beth Sylvia, Rock Island, and Ron and Kari Beswick, Rock Island; paternal grandparents, Colleen Brown, Moline, and Mike Wolfe, Moline.
Jenese Nelson
Jenese Lethin Nelson, 85, passed away Saturday, Oct. 12, 2002, in Walnut Creek, Calif.
A private memorial service was held Oct. 19 in Dublin, Calif.
She was born Oct. 27, 1916, in Moline. She married
Karl 'Lenny' Nelson in Waukegan, Ill.
In 1957 they moved to San Mateo, Calif., where they raised their large family. They had lived in Danville, Calif., for the last eight years.
She lived for her family, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and great-great-grandchild.
She is survived and lovingly remembered by her high school sweetheart and loving husband of 67 years, Karl; 13 children; 23 grandchilren; 15 great-grandchildren; one great-great-grandchild; and sisters, Marjory Lethin Tooley, Harlingen, Texas, and Anita Lethin Sundin, Davenport.
May she rest in peace.
Raymond Black
Raymond W. Black, 77, of Coyne Center, died Friday, Nov. 22, 2002, at Trinity Medical Center, West Campus, Rock Island.
There is no visitation and it was his wish to be cremated. Memorial services will be held at a later date. Wheelan-Pressly Funeral Home, Milan, is in charge of arrangments.
