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The Dispatch from Moline, Illinois • 6

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The Dispatchi
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Moline, Illinois
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Published In THE DAILY DISPATCH Moline, Ill. THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 1973 DEATHS AND FUNERALS Former Alderman Glenn Folmar Dies Former Moline Ald. Glenn D. Folmar, 46, of Monroe, died Wednesday in the Center Pavilion Hospital in Houston, Tex. Services will be at the Radney Funeral Home, Mobile, at 2 p.m.

Friday. The site of burial has not yet been determined. Mr. Folmar was born in Gadston, Ala. He married Jean Roberts on June 15, 1950.

Moving to Moline in 1963, he was employed by Deere Co. as sales and service manager for the John Deere Plow Planter Works. In the April, 1971 city elec- SOLD! REAL ESTATE AGENCY "We did it again?" Mrs. Stella Evans LYNDON Mrs. Stella Evans, 93, of Lyndon, died Wednesday at the Resthaven Nursing Home in Morrison, where she had resided for the last three years.

Services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at the BeardsleyFielding Funeral Home in Chariton, Iowa. Burial will be in the Charilton Cemetery. Visitation will be from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday.

The Gardner Funeral Home. Prophetstown, is in charge of local arrangements. Stella Turnbull was born in Blockton, lowa. She married Gomer H. Evans, who died in 1937.

She moved to Lyndon from Chicago in 1955. Included among the survivors are five sons, George, Des Moines; Bernal, Fontana, Donald, Chesterton, David, Elkhart, and Wayne, Lyndon; 11 grandchildren, and a sister, Buena Turnbull, Bedord, Iowa. Mrs. Lucille L. Pickrel SHERRARD Services for Mrs.

Lucille L. Pickrel, 75, of Sherrard, who died Tuesday evening will be at 1 p.m. Friday in the Crummy Funeral Home, Viola. The Rev. Gerald Oliver, pastor of the Sherrard Presbyterian Church, will officiate.

Burial will be in Gilson Cemetery, Gilson. Vistation will be at the funeral home until time of service. Emory P. Martin GENESEO Emory P. Martin, 91, of 728 South Center Geneseo, was found dead EMORY P.

MARTIN at his residence Wednesday morning. Death was apparently self inflicted. A coroner's inquest will be conducted at a later date. Services will be at 2 p.m. Friday in the Wright Funeral Home, Geneseo, with the Rev.

Donald I. Bartholomew, pastor of the First Congregational Church, officiating. Burial will be in Sheffield Cemetery. Friends may call this afternoon and evening. He was born in Sheffield, the son of Paul and Emma Kinsman Martin.

He married Victory McKey Feb. 20, 1906, in Wyanet. She died in 1964. He had lived the last 22 years in Geneseo after his retirement from farming. He was a member of the Sheffield Methodist Church.

He is survived by a son, Max E. Martin, Seattle, a daughter, Mrs. Joseph Spindler, Geneseo; two grandchildren; two great grandchildren; a sister, Mrs. Hazel Whitted, Champaign, and two brothers, Raymond and Bert, both of Buda. OPEN Nights 'til 9 P.M.

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Elizabeth Steenburgh, Burlington, Iowa, known professionally as Betty Fletcher, died June 1 at Burlington Memorial Hospital. Funeral services were Tuesday in Burlington. Burial was in Aspen Grove Cemetery. The former Elizabeth Pletscher was born in Monmouth. She was married to John Steenburgh March 14, 1913, in Aledo.

He preceded her in death. She studied art at Pooles Studio, Moline, Municipal Art Gallery, Davenport, the Chicago Art Institute, American Academy and the Frederick Mizen Academy. She also was an accomplished musician, performing at the Burlington Opera House, Augustana College and numerous other places. Mrs. Fletcher had a art studio in Chicago and exhibited many one-man shows in the United States and Europe.

Her last exhibit was at the Hawk Eye in Burlington in 1972. Surviving are two sons, Richard M. Fletcher, Burlington, and Dr. Jackson P. Fletcher, Bellwood; five grandchildren and one great grand daughter.

Mrs. Minnie Minnaert Services for Mrs. Minnie Minnaert, 76, of 1518 W. Lombard Davenport, who died Wednesday in the Americana Nursing Center, will be at 9:30 a.m. Saturday in Holy Family Catholic Church, Davenport.

Burial will be in Davenport Memorial Park. Visitation will be Friday at the Runge Mortuary, where the rosary will be recited at 8 p.m. Friday. Mrs. Minnaert is survived by three sons, Leonard, of Walcott, Iowa, C.

Ames, Iowa, and Eugene, RR 1, Dixon; seven grandchildren, and five great grandchildren. Mrs. Elmer A. Gullberg Services for Mrs. Elmer A.

Gullberg, 80, of 2736 17th Ave. Court, Moline, who died Tuesday, will be at 3 p.m. Friday in the First Congregational Church, Moline. Burial will be in Riverside Cemetery. There will be no visitation.

Beserra Infant Jennifer Marie Beserra, infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Beserra, Railroad Moline, died this morning after a brief illness at University Hospital in Iowa City. Graveside services will be at 11 a.m. Friday at St.

Mary's Cemetery, East Moline. Arrangements are being handied by DeRoo Funeral Home. Jennifer Beserra was born on May 22 in Illini Hospital, Silvis. Survivors include the parents; the grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.

Fred Beserra, Rock Island, and Mr. and Mrs. David R. Terronez, Moline; the maternal great grandfathers, Phillip Ponciano, East Moline, and Phillip Terronez, Silvis, and a paternal great grandmother, Mrs. Josephine Perez, Moline.

Mrs. John T. Edwards Services for Mrs. John T. Edwards, 62, of 5214 11th Moline, will be at 1 p.m.

Saturday in the Miller Funeral Home, Metropolis. The site of burial has not yet been determined. Visitation will be from 2 to 9 p.m. today at the Sullivan Mortuary, East Moline. Mrs.

Edwards died Tuesday in Franciscan Hospital. Virginia R. Moran was born in Paducah, Ky. She married John Edwards in 1931. She is survived by the widower; a son, Ben Moran, Royal Oak, three grandchildren; a sister, Mrs.

Ethel Williamson, Car son, and a brother, George Moran, Metropolis. Relax CHANCES ARE YOUR GIFT WILL COME FROM Udeen's MEN'S WEAR 1621 FIFTH AVENUE MOLINE, ILLINOIS FATHER'S DAY Sunday, June 17 CAMBRIDGE Kenneth Glenn Osborne, 57, of Ramona, formerly of Kewanee and Cambridge, was killed in an automobile accident Wednesday morning near Oregon, Ill. The body was brought to Stackhouse Scheuneman Funeral Home in Cambridge, where visitation will be from 7 to 9 this evening. The body will then be sent to Ramona, where services and burial will be Monday. Mr.

Osborne was born in Kenneth Glenn Osborne Kewanee. He married Mildred Franklin on June 10, 1939 in Kewanee. tions, Mr. Folmar was chosen alderman from the Seventh Ward. He served on the Moline City Council until December of that year, when he accepted a position as territory manager in Monroe for the Memphis sales branch of John Deere Co.

Among the survibors are the widow, two daughters, Ellen and Susan, and a son, Kenneth, all at home. Arthur E. Alstedt ALEXIS Arthur E. Alstedt, 77, Alexis, died Tuesday night in Cottage Hospital, Galesburg. Services will be at 3 p.m.

Friday in the McKnight Memorial Home in Alexis. Burial will be in Alexis Cemetery. Visitation will be from 7 to 9 p.m, today. Memorials may be made to the Alexis United Methodist Church. Mr.

Alstedt was born in Moline. He married Frances Reem in Galesburg. Survivors include the widow; two daughters, Mrs. Charles Leath, Galesburg, and Mrs. Wayne Larson, Knoxville; four sons, John, of Alexis, William, Moline, Edward and Joel, both of Galesburg; 18 grandchildren and seven great grandchildren.

SATISFACTION Sears MOLINE ROEBUCK AND CO. DUCK CREEK Survivors include the widow; three sons, David, Robert, and Michael, and three daughters, Shaaron, Linda and Debra, all of Ramona; 12 grandchildren; his step-father, Milem Robertson, Cambridge; two halfbrothers, James and LaVern Robertson, both of Cambridge; a half-sister, Mrs. Glenn Engstrom, Galva, and a step-sister, Mrs. Richard Nystrom, Geneseo. He was preceded in death by la daughter and a granddaughter.

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