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OBITUARIES 0 QUAD-CITY TIMES 1 Tuesday, Oct 7, 1997 Karl Henry Schmitz 56 East Moline 7 n. .11: i- Leon Pulliam Jr. Robert Clark ROCK ISLAND Robert B. Clark, 74, of Rock Island, died Monday, Oct 6, 1997, at Trinity Medical Center-West Campus, Rock Island. Private services will be Thursday Lavonne Schumaker CAMBRIDGE, 111.

for Lavonne E. Schumaker, 61, of. Cambridge, will be 1:30 p.rm" Wednesday at Stackhouse-Moore Funeral Homes, Cambridge. Burial will be in Galva Cemetery. yj.

Visitation is 6-9 p.m. today at the EAST MOLINE Services for Leon Pulliam 36, of Oakland, formerly of East Moline, will be 11 a.m. Thursday at Gaines Chapel AME Church, East Moline. Burial will be in Hampton (111.) Cemetery Visitation is 6-8 p.m. Wednesday CLINTON, Iowa Services for Karl Henry Schmitz 56, owner and operator of Schmitz Funeral Home, will be 11:30 a.m.

Thursday at Jesus Christ, Prince of Peace Parish, St. Irenaeus Catholic Church, Clinton. The Rev. Ronald Young will officiate. Burial will be in Clinton Lawn Cemetery.

Visitation will be 2-9 p.m. 1. i nVUnmA JuJ at National Cemetery, Rock Island Arsenal. Graveside military services will be conducted by American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars. 1 'M funeral home.

Mrs. Schumaker died Sunday, Oct 5, 1997, at Hammond-Henry Hospital, Geneseo. She worked at the Peoples National Bank at Sullivan-Phillips Mortuary East Moline. Mr. Pulliam died Monday, Oct.

6, 1997, in Oakland. He worked in packaging and shipping in the Mr. Clark Visitation is p.m. Wednesday Wednesday at Schmitz Funeral Home, Clinton, where a parish vigil service at 7 p.m. and a Knights of Columbus rosary and 4th Degree Chalice at Wheelan Mrs.

Schumaker Funeral Home, Rock Island. Mr. Pulllam Mr. Schmitz the Knights of Columbus; and a member of Loras Assembly 260 4th Degree Knights of Columbus. He served on the board of directors of Clinton Ecumenical Housing; the board of directors and supporter of the Nee-Hi Drum and Bugle and the Iowa Funeral Director's Association, where he was District 2 governor; and was a Clinton Chamber of Commerce Ambassador.

He also was a member of the Eagle's Club and the Loyal Order of the Moose, past president of the Lions Club, past member of the Elks Club, past member of the Clinton Riverboat Days committee and past director of the Clinton Baseball Club. Karl was an avid sports enthusiast, especially the Iowa Hawkeyes, the Chicago Bulls, Clinton Lumber Kings and the Green Bay Packers. Survivors include his wife, Sharon; a son, Karl H. Schmitz Jr. and his wife Debi.

Manchester; daughters, Kristine Schmitz, Clinton, and Kimberly and her husband, Marcus Kimmer, Charlotte, N.C.; a grandson, BijanAsaadi, Clinton; a brother, Kenneth Schmitz and his wife, Jane, Arkadelphia, sisters, Karen and her husband, Jack Hemesath, Castalia, Mary Lou and her husband, Ivan Uhlenhake, Ossian; a brother-in-law, Jim Braudt and his wife Pat, of Clinton; and 15 nephews and nine nieces. He was preceded in death by his parents and a daughter, Cynthia, in infancy Karl was a loving and devoted husband, father, grandfather, brother and uncle. He will be greatly missed by all who knew and loved him. Pallbearers will be Lauren Hyde, Rich Hansen, Terry Kenney, Bob Kimmer, Bob Blohm, Dorance Cox John Shepard and Tom Havens. SERVICES PENDING DAVENPORT Hilda Kakert, Davenport, died Sunday at Feiervary Health Center, Davenport Arrangements pending at Runge, Davenport.

Grace oaten bach, 91 of Davenport died Monday at Genesis Medical Center-West Campus, Davenport. Arrangements pending at McGinnis, Chambers Sass, Bettendorf. Henry Sanders, 54, of Peoria, formerly ot Davenport, died Saturday in Peoria. Arrangements pending at Simons, Peona. LONG GROVE Joanne Belk, 60, of Long Grove, Iowa, died Monday at Genesis Medical Center-West Campus, Davenport.

Arrangements pending at Weerts, Davenport. MILAN Donald F. Casey, 87, of 8824 Turkey Hollow Road, died Monday at Heartland Health Care Center, Moline. Visitation is 4-7 p.m. Wednesday at Knox-Larson, Rook Island, where further arrangements are pending.

Loretta M. Neilson, 71 of Milan, died Sunday at her home. Visitation is 6-8 p.m. Wednesday at Esterdahl, Moline, where further arrangements are pending. MOLINE Charles R.

Mosher, 73, of Dunnellon, died Monday at lllini Hospital, Silvis, III. Arrangements pending at Esterdahl, Moline. AREA Mabel Dlngman, 89. formerly of I DeWitt, Iowa, died Sunday in Merrillville, Ind. Visitation is 2-4 and 6-8 p.m.

Wednesday at Schultz, DeWitt, where further arrangements are pending. Kenneth D. Fischer, 69, of Lost Nation, Iowa, formerly of Elwood, Iowa, died Monday at Mercy Hospital, St. Joseph's Unit, Dubuque, Iowa. Arrangements pending at Carson Son, Maquoketa.

Amanda Heath, 87, of Clinton, Iowa, died Monday at Samaritan North Hospital, Clinton. Arrangements pending at Snell-Zornig, Clinton. Daisy Otto, 85, of Maquoketa, Iowa, formerly of Walcott, Iowa, died Monday at Crestridge Nursing Home, Maquoketa. Arrangements pending at Carson Son. Maquoketa.

Doris Strunk, 72, of Clinton, Iowa, died Monday at Samaritan North i Hospital, Clinton. Arrangements pend- ing at Snell-Zornig. Clinton. in Kewanee in earlier years. In 1969, she began working at the Henry County Farm Bureau in Cambridge as a bookkeeper, retiring in June.

Lavonne Smith was born May 4, 1936, in Kewanee. She married Linder Schumaker in 1956 in Bishop Hill. Memorials may be made to the Cambridge Ambulance Service of Cambridge United Methodist Church. Survivors include her husband; sons, Ronald, Cambridge, San Francisco, and David, St. Cloud, two grandchildren; sisters, Donna Johnson, Cam-; bridge, and Bette Clarke, Coloria; and a brother, Carl Smith, Mr.

Clark was employed 21 years as a firefighter at the former East Moline State Hospital. He was assistant fire chief for six years and retired in 1985. He was born Dec. 24, 1922, in Atkinson, 111. She married Verla Rosenow in 1943.

He married Helen Kiesey in 1962 in Reynolds, ILL During World War II, he served in the Marine Corps. He participated in the battles of Saipan and received a Purple Heart on Iwo Jima. Memorials may be made to a favorite charity. Survivors include his wife; a daughter, Pamela Epperly, Milan, sons, Robert "Rick," Sycamore, 111., Steven, Davenport, Jeffrey, East Moline, and Kurt, Geneseo, 13 grandchildren; and sisters, Catherine Anderson, Ohio, 111., and Helen Clark, Sublette, 111. warehouse at Express Plus, Hay-ward, Calif.

He was born July 14, 1961, in Moline. Survivors include his parents, Barbara Pulliam, Moline, and Lawrence Pulliam, Springfield, Ohio; sisters, Cynthia Patterson, Silvis, 111., and Angela Pulliam, Moline; and a special friend, Linda Brown, Oakland. Furnetta White EAST MOLINE Services for Furnetta M. White, 71, of 1026 13th will be 11 a.m. Thursday at Orr's Mortuary, Rock Island.

Burial will be in National Cemetery, Rock Island Arsenal. Visitation will be 3-6 p.m. service to follow. Mr. Schmitz died Saturday, Oct.

4, 1997, at Genesis Medical Center-East Campus, Davenport, after a brief illness. Karl moved to Clinton on Dec. 30, 1963, where he owned and operated the Snyder-Schmitz Funeral Home, later known as Schmitz Funeral Home until his death. He also was co-owner of Schmitz Funeral Home, Ossian. Karl was born Nov.

8, 1940, in Decorah, to Philip and Florence (Miller) Schmitz. He received his education at St. Francis De Sales School, Ossian, and graduated in 1958 from De Sales High School. He attended Upper Iowa University, Fayette, for two years, and graduated from the Wisconsin Institute of Mortuary Science, Milwaukee. Karl married Sharon Janet Braudt on Aug.

8, 1964, at Sacred Heart Church, Clinton. Karl was a member of Jesus Christ, Prince of Peace Parish, and Clinton Knights of Columbus Council 707, where he was a past grand knight and trustee; former deputy of the Iowa State Council of Wednesday at the funeral home, with a wake service from 6-8 p.m. Mrs. White died Sunday, Oct. 5, 1997, at Oak Glen Nursing Center, Coal Valley, 111..

Dr. Wylie Griffith CLINTON, Iowa Private ser-; vices for Dr. Wylie H. Griffith, 79, of 1211 Harrison Drive, will be Thursday at Clinton Chapel of Snell-Zornig Funeral Home and Crematory. Burial will be in Oakland; Cemetery, Clinton.

I Visitation is 4-8 p.m. Wednesday Area deaths Terry Johnston CLINTON, Iowa Services for Terry L. Johnston, 55, of 808 7th Ave. will be 2:30 p.m. today at Snell-Zornig Funeral Home, Clinton.

The burial has been changed to St. Mary's Cemetery, Clinton. Mrs. White at the funeral home. Dr.

Griffith died Sunday, Oct. 5, 1997, at his home. He was a physician internist at Medical Associ Hollis Hoffhine DENVER Hollis Ellen "Holly" Hoffhine, owner of Grandma's Corner, Bay City, died Aug. 26, 1997, in Englewood. She was 90.

A memorial service was Aug. 30 'el'. Elmer Beck ORION, 111. Elmer E. Beck, 76, of Orion, died Monday, Oct.

6, 1997, at lllini Hospital, Silvis. Services will be 11 a.m. Thursday at Orion United Methodist Church. Burial will be in Alpha Cemetery. Visitation will be 5-8 p.m.

Francis Coughlin DAVENPORT Services for Francis J. Coughlin, 81, of Davenport, will be 10 a.m. Wednesday at St. Paul the Apostle Catholic Church, Davenport. Burial will be in Mount Calvary Cemetery, Davenport.

Visitation will be 4-8 p.m. today -V Dr. Griffith Furnetta Daniels was born June 13, 1926, in Pensacola, Fla. She married Henry White in 1943 in Pensacola. She was a homemaker.

Survivors include her husband; daughters, Linda Lowery and Jacqueline White, both of South-field, and Angeline White, East Moline; sons, Russell, Detroit, and Henry LaGrange, seven grandchildren; and eight greatgrandchildren. Moline Marcel Van Raes MOLINE Marcel A. Van Raes, 86, of 5231 11th Ave. died Monday, Oct. 6, 1997, at lllini Hospital, Silvis, 111.

Services will be 10 a.m. Wednes ates, Clinton, until 1993, when he retired. at Porter Place, Denver. Interment will be 3 p.m. Oct.

18 at Pine Hill Cemetery, Davenport. She was born Feb. 11, 1907, in Davenport. In Wednesday at Kirk, Huggins and Esterdahl Funeral Home, Orion. Masonic services will be conducted at 7:30 p.m.

by Woodhull Masonic Lodge 502 AF and AM. Mr. Beck with a rosary at 7 p.m. at Funeral Home, Davenport. Mr.

Coughlin died Sunday, Oct. 5, 1997, at Genesis Medical Center-East Mrs. Hoffhine FUNERALS TODAY Louise Aegerter, 1 p.m., Runge, Davenport Arlon Barsema, 10:30 a.m., Spring Valley Reformed Church, Fulton, III. Robert Chaudoin, 1 0 a.m., St. Mathias Catholic Church, Muscatine, Iowa.

Winifred Gluba, 10.30 a.m., 1 Center Presbyterian Church, Seaton, I III. Terry Johnston, 2:30 p.m., Snell-Zornig, Clinton, Iowa. Marie Kludy, 10 a.m., St. Pius Catholic Church, Rock Island. Earl Miller 4 p.m., Jeffrey S.

Nichols-Chapel Hill, Muscatine, Iowa. Gertrude Nelson, 11 a.m., Rose Lawn Memorial Estates, Moline. Allen Regennltter, 10:30 a.m., Grace United Church of Christ, Wilton, Iowa. Jack Robinson, 1 1 a.m., United Methodist Church, Joy, III. Hans Stock, 10 a.m., Runge, Davenport.

Camilla Sullivan, 10:30 a.m., Zion Lutheran Church, Clinton, Iowa. Karon Thorp, 10:30 a.m., St. John's Catholic Church, Viola, III. Marie Wilson, 2:30 p.m., Runge, Davenport. Vernon Wirth, 1 0:30 a.m., Bentley, Durant, Iowa.

Mr. Beck Mr. Coughlin rib day at St. Anne's Catholic Church, East Moline. Entombment will be in St.

Mary's Mausoleum. Visitation is 4-8 p.m. today at Van Hoe Mr. Van Raes the 1920s, she was a member of the all-girl orchestra, the Syncopated Six, and later was organist for Eastern Star, Marine City, and Porter Place. She was a collector of antique glass and a china painter.

She was an Eastern Star worthy matron. She married Joseph J. Nigg, a construction engineer, Sept. 14, 1932, in Memphis, and lived throughout the Midwest. After his death, she married Charles E.

Hoffhine June 17, 1977, in Utica, Mich. Memorials may be made to the Porter Place Foundation, 1001 E. Yale, Denver, CO 80210. Survivors include a son, Joseph E. Nigg, Denver; three grandsons; and five great-grandchildren.

worked 40 years as a car salesman for Hardin Sales and Service, Orion, and continued when the dealership became Augie and Earl's, retiring in 1987. After retirement, he worked at the dealership on a part-time basis. He was born May 13, 1921, in Barstow. He married Dorothy Carson in 1941 in Missouri. He was an Army veteran of World Warn.

Memorials may be made to the church. Survivors include his wife; daughters, Susan Keleher and Mary Johnson, both of Orion; five grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; and brothers, George, Wood-hull, and Pat, Hot Springs, Ark. He was born Sept. 2, 1918, in Guthrie Center. He married Maxine Artes in 1942 in Kahoka, Mo.

She died in 1993. During World War II, he served In' the Army. He was a captain in the European Theater. Memorials may be made to American Lung Association. "1( Survivors include a Michelle Bailey, Dakota Dunes, S.D.; sons, Wylie Boise, Idaho, Vaughn, Cedar Falls, Byron, Clih ton, and James, Austin, seven grandchildren; and a Doris Lemke, Guthrie Center.

Genevieve Cram CLINTON, Iowa Services for Genevieve H. Cram, 88, of 564 3rd Ave. will be noon Thursday at Cannon Funeral Home, Clinton'. Burial will be in Oakland Cemetery, Clinton. Visitation is 4-9 p.m.

Wednesday at the funeral home. Mrs. Cram died Sunday Oct. 5, 1997 at Samaritan Hospital North, Clinton. She was a homemaker.

Genevieve Manning was born March 3, 1909, in Clinton County. She married Ralph Cram in 1927 in Lyons. He died in 1987. Survivors include Lois Birely, Camanche, Sally FolgerN Princeton, and Cheryl Cram, Clin-' ton; sons, Ralph, Bellevue, Allen and Steve, both of Clinton, and Deri--nis, Houston; 35 grandchildren; 71" great-grandchildren; seven step great-grandchildren; 26 great-great-' grandchildren; sisters, Colletta Jordan, Alice Bull and Dolorosa' Petersen, all of Clinton, Helen Peters, Grand Mound, and Dorothy. Tholen, Camanche; and a brother, Herbert Manning, DeWitt.

C' More obituaries: 3M Davenport William Murphy "BROWN DEERE, Wis. Services for William J. Murphy, 53, of Brown Deere, were held at Our Lady of Good Hope Church, Brown Deere. Mr. Murphy died Sunday, Sept.

21, 1997, while visiting his daughter in Davenport. He was unit manager at area headquarters for the Travelers Insurance Group. He married JoAnne Ruge in 1970. Survivors include his wife; daughters, Michelle Murphy, Indianapolis, and Maureen Murphy, Davenport; and his mother, Marguerite Murphy, Iowa City. Edna Huizenga GENESEO, 111.

Services for Edna G. Huizenga, 90, of Hillcrest Home, will be 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at Stackhouse-Moore Funeral Homes, Myers Chapel, Geneseo. Burial will be in Oakwood Cemetery, Geneseo. Visitation is 6-8 p.m.

today at the funeral home. Campus, Davenport. He retired in 1974 from the tool grinding department after 36 years at Rock Island Arsenal. He was born Aug. 7, 1916, in Lyndon Station, to John and Mary (Kelley) Coughlin.

He married Rosemary A. Elbert on June 29, 1942, in Emmetsburg, Iowa. During World War II, he served in the Army. He was a member of St. Paul the Apostle Catholic Church, Davenport; Knights of Columbus Loras Council 532, Davenport; Davenport Elks 298; National Association of Federal Retired Employees; and Halligan-McCabe Funeral Home Pallbearer Club.

Mr. Coughlin was a bowling enthusiast, having bowled for the Elks and Knights of Columbus leagues. Memorials may be made to St. Paul the Apostle Church Building Fund. Survivors include his wife, Rosemary, Davenport; sons and daughters-in-law, John and Kathy Coughlin, Olathe, and Cletus and Jane Coughlin, Chesterfield, six grandchildren; two greatgrandchildren; and sisters, Helen Tiradani and Margaret Harvey, both of Lyndon Station, and Marie Fitzgerald, Racine, Wis.

He was preceded in death by his parents, three brothers and a sister. Judith Arnold DAVENPORT Memorial Services for Judith L. Arnold, 53, of Sequim, formerly of Davenport, will be 3 p.m. Friday at St. Mark Lutheran Church, Davenport.

Burial will be in Iowa. Sequim Valley Chapel is in charge of arrangements. Mrs. Arnold died Sunday, Sept. 28, 1997, at her home.

She was a certified nurses assistant at Sequim nursing homes. Judith Draese was born July 11, 1944, in Davenport She married Martin Arnold in 1963 in Coeur d'A-lene, Idaho, Memorial may be made to Clallam County 4-H, 223 E. 4th, Port Angeles, 98362. Survivors include her husband; seVen children; nine grandchildren; two sisters; and a brother. Tyree Davis DAVENPORT Services for Tyree Rickey Davis, infant son of Patrice Terry, of 644 W.

63rd will be 10 a.m. today at Fairmount Cemetery, Davenport. Orr's Mortuary, Rock Island, is in charge of arrangements. Tyree died after birth Friday, Oct. 3, 1997, at Genesis Medical Center-East Campus, Davenport.

Survivors include his mother; and his grandmother, Ella Terry, both of Davenport. Coal Valley Margaret Wallace COAL VALLEY, 111. Services for Margaret E. Wallace, 67, of Coal Valley, will be 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at Hodgson Funeral Home Rock Island.

Burial will be in Beulah Cemetery, Coal Valley. Visitation will be 1-3 p.m. today at 7 Funeral Home, East Moline, with a rosary recited at 7:30 p.m. Mr. Van Raes was employed as a meat cutter at the former Van Raes' Market and Baecke's Market, and retired in 1977 as a steward at the former LeClaire Hotel, Moline.

He was born Nov. 23, 1912, in Zarren, Belgium. He married Laura Kerschieter in 1934 in East Moline. She died in 1995. Memorials may be made to the Monsignor William J.

Cleary Endowment fund. Survivors include daughters, Joanne Herrington and Susanne Boyer, both of East Moline; sons, Laurence, East Moline, and Robert, Roswell, N.M.; eight grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; and a brother, A.L. "Curly," Moline. He was preceded in death by a brother, Rev. Michael Van Raes, on June 25.

Rock Island James O'Dette ROCK ISLAND Private family services for James O'Dette, 74, of Rock Island, will be held at a later date. His body will be donated to the University of Iowa. Weerts Funeral Home, Davenport, is in charge of arrangements. Mr. O'Dette died Sunday, Oct.

5, 1997, at Trinity Medical Center-West Campus, Rock Island. He was employed as a classical pianist in the San Francisco area and had given private piano lessons and classical performances since 1948, retiring in 1988. He was born July 7, 1923, in Saginaw, Mich. He was a Navy veteran of World War II. Memorials may be made to a favorite charity.

Survivors include a sister, June Harder, Rock Island; and a brother, Richard, Scottsdale, Ariz. 1 Mrs. Huizenga died Sunday, Oct. 5, 1997, at the home. She was employed as a nurse's aide and later as a licensed practical nurse at 1 Mrs.

Huizenga We can look inside your sewer and spot problems. Hammond-Henry Hospital, Geneseo, for 27 years, retiring in 1976. Edna Stahl was born Feb. 21, 1907, in Herrod, S.D. She married Jacob Huizenga in 1930 in Wisconsin.

He died in 1978. Memorials may be made to the home. Survivors include a daughter, Carol Robb, Geneseo; sons, Delbert, Chesapeake, and Bernard, Geneseo; 11 grandchildren; 11 greatgrandchildren; and a HI-TECH TV InsDections 1 A Must When Buying A Home. the funeral home. Mrs.

Wallace died Saturday, Oct. 4, 1997, at Trinity Medical Center-West Campus, Rock Island. She worked at the Rock Island SEWER WATER REPAIRS A SPECIALTY Eunice Risinger Bullis FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. -Services for Eunice Helen Risinger Bullis, 89, of Fayette, formerly of Davenport, were Oct. 3 in Butterfield Trail Village, Fayetteville.

Burial will be in Rogers Cemetery, Fayetteville. Visitation was Oct. 3 at Moore's Chapel, Fayetteville. Mrs. Bullis died Monday, Sept.

29, 1997, in Fayetteville. She was a teacher and developed curriculum for teaching English. She retired in 1973 from West High School, Davenport. Eunice Risinger was born April 6, 1908, in LaFontaine, Kan. She married Rufus Bullis.

He preceded her in death. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Butterfield Trail Village, 1923 E. Joyce Fayetteville, AK 72703, or Sequoyah United Methodist Church, 1910 Old Wire Fayetteville, AK 72703. Survivors include daughters, Mary Dawson, Tucson, and Joy Conway, Dover, a son, James, Sunnyvale, eight grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; and a sister, Louise McChesney, Davenport. PETERSEN PLUMBING 326-1658 Days 282-4255 Eves.

Mrs. Wallace There Is A Difference IN FUNERAL HOMES HEARING LOSS FREE INFO I CONSULTATION Celebrating 108 years of Service 1889-1997 Arsenal and for the Department of Human Services until her retirement. Margaret Schmidt was born June 26, 1930, in Cable. She was preceded in death by her first husband, George Bremer, in 1981. She married Raymond Wallace in 1982 in Milan.

A memorial fund has been established. Survivors include her husband; a stepson, Rev. Dennis Wallace, Hix-son, and two step-grandchildren. Obituary policy: The Quad-City Times publishes standard obituary notices as a public service, without charge. This page also includes Custom Obituaries, a service for families wishing to include additional information at a fee.

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