Visitation will be 4 to 7 p.m. Friday at Hodgson Funeral Home, Rock Island, where further arrangements are pending. Blanche L. Dempsey, 88, of Rock Island, died Wednesday, April 10, 2002, at ...

Services for John David Carnithan, 30, of Rock Island, are 10 a.m. Saturday at Edgewood Baptist Church, Rock Island, where he was a member. The Rev. Melvin Brown will officiate. Burial is in Greenview ...

A Butte native, Father Emmett was born on Dec. 3, 1923, to John and Annie Kelly. He attended elementary school and high school in Butte. He enlisted in the U.S. Coast Guard and served in Alaska during ...

Gordon Engebretson, 86, of La Crosse passed away Sunday, April 28, 2002, at Hillview Health Care Center from Parkinson's disease. He was born in La Crosse on Dec. 26, 1915, and married Leona Machkovch ...

Here’s some good news: So many people turned out to work for free at the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City that the Games will turn a profit. That’s a rare event, reports the Wall Street Journal, and ...

* indicates a paid obituary Mildred H. Fox, 82, died April 7, 2002, at her home. She was born in Rutland, Sept. 18, 1919, the daughter of Arthur and Marion (Hyland) Papineau. She graduated from ...

BURLINGTON - Shirley E. (nee: Jones) Shiffer, 68, passed away at Mount Carmel Medical and Rehabilitation Center in Burlington on Monday, April 1, 2002. A Memorial service will be held at English ...

ONALASKA, Wis. - Edwin A. Thrun passed away peacefully on Friday, April 12, 2002, after a long, courageous battle with kidney disease. He was born Sept. 12, 1937, in La Crosse to Edwin Thrun Sr., and ...

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