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Monday, March 27, 2017Thelma E. Elliott, 92, will be noon Tuesday, March 28, 2017, in the All Faith Chapel at Halligan-McCabe-DeVries Funeral Home, 614 N. Main St., Davenport. Burial will take place at Rock Island National Cemetery, Arsenal Island. The family will greet friends from 11 a.m. until the time of the service Tuesday at the funeral home. Mrs. Elliott passed away Friday, March 24, at Genesis Medical Center-East Rusholme Street, Davenport.Thelma E. Amlong was born May 3, 1924, a daughter of Cecil and Audrey (Haller) Amlong. She was united in marriage to Dale I. Elliott on Oct. 20, 1942. He preceded her in death on Feb. 7, 2007, after almost 65 years of marriage together. After retiring as a bookkeeper from Tupperware home parties, Thelma enjoyed 30 years working as a volunteer at Genesis East, ordering and arranging plants for the gift shop. Her love of plants and flowers was also evident in her beautiful garden. She loved playing golf both in a league and with her friends and husband. Thelma lived a full and happy life.She had been a longtime member of Grace United Methodist Church, Davenport.Her children, Ron Elliott (Nan), Kay Pash and Lynn Kane (Mike) will miss their sweet, kind Mom, as well as the long li...
Monday, March 06, 2017MOLINE — Richard E. "Gene" Whitaker, 84, of Moline, died Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017, at his home. Services will be private. Burial will be at Rock Island National Cemetery, Arsenal Island, where military honors will be presented.Wheelan-Pressly Funeral Home and Crematory, Rock Island, is assisting the family.Gene was born Feb. 28, 1933, in Iowa City, a son of Herman and Katie (Barnes) Whitaker. He graduated from the University of Iowa in 1967. Gene was a U.S. Army veteran.Gene worked at Caterpillar, John Deere and the University of Iowa, where he retired in 1999.Gene was a ham radio operator, enjoyed attending high school sports, and was an avid Iowa Hawkeyes and Chicago Cubs fan. He also really enjoyed spending time with his grandchildren.Survivors include his children, Steve (Mary Lund) Whitaker, Moline, and Janel (Kenny) Belk, Bettendorf; grandchildren, Courtney and Taylor Belk and Kylie, Kennidee and Grace Whitaker; brother, Herm Whitaker, Winter Haven, Florida; his former wife and friend, Marilyn Whitaker; and several nieces and nephews. Sign up to get each day's obituaries sent to your em...
Monday, January 23, 2017She was the group's first president.Her son, Jim Rack, said an early experience in her life set her on her path.The Rock Island, Illinois, native graduated from Rice Institute, now Rice University, in Houston with a bachelor’s degree in accounting in 1943.“She was told not to bother to take the CPA exam because she wasn’t going to get hired as a CPA,” Jim Rack said. Throughout her life, she used that as an example of the kind of discrimination she faced as a woman, he said.Though she couldn’t find work as an accountant or even a bookkeeper, Rack landed a job as a secretary at Robert H. Ray Geophysical Co. in Houston.And it was there she met her future husband, Armin Harold “Hap” Rack, a 1938 Rice graduate, when he returned to the company after World War II.The couple moved to New Orleans in 1946 and Rack joined the League of Women Voters, which led her into a variety of activities that eventually turned her attention to public education, her son Rick Rack said.“One of her primary concerns was women’s equality,” he said. “She believed that the way you could reach those goals was through education.”Jim Rack said New Orleans then had strong private schools, especially parochial schools, but his mother thought the public schools deserved support as well. “She felt that public education was important,” he said.“Long before the phrase became popular, Elizabeth Rack was a strong woman with noble goals,” said Barbara McPhee, a New Orleans educator who first met Ra...
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Monday, March 27, 2017Thelma E. Elliott, 92, will be noon Tuesday, March 28, 2017, in the All Faith Chapel at Halligan-McCabe-DeVries Funeral Home, 614 N. Main St., Davenport. Burial will take place at Rock Island National Cemetery, Arsenal Island. The family will greet friends from 11 a.m. until the time of the service Tuesday at the funeral home. Mrs. Elliott passed away Friday, March 24, at Genesis Medical Center-East Rusholme Street, Davenport.Thelma E. Amlong was born May 3, 1924, a daughter of Cecil and Audrey (Haller) Amlong. She was united in marriage to Dale I. Elliott on Oct. 20, 1942. He preceded her in death on Feb. 7, 2007, after almost 65 years of marriage together. After retiring as a bookkeeper from Tupperware home parties, Thelma enjoyed 30 years working as a volunteer at Genesis East, ordering and arranging plants for the gift shop. Her love of plants and flowers was also evident in her beautiful garden. She loved playing golf both in a league and with her friends and husband. Thelma lived a full and happy life.She had been a longtime member of Grace United Methodist Church, Davenport.Her children, Ron Elliott (Nan), Kay Pash and Lynn Kane (Mike) will miss their sweet, kind Mom, as well as the long li...
Monday, March 06, 2017MOLINE — Richard E. "Gene" Whitaker, 84, of Moline, died Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017, at his home. Services will be private. Burial will be at Rock Island National Cemetery, Arsenal Island, where military honors will be presented.Wheelan-Pressly Funeral Home and Crematory, Rock Island, is assisting the family.Gene was born Feb. 28, 1933, in Iowa City, a son of Herman and Katie (Barnes) Whitaker. He graduated from the University of Iowa in 1967. Gene was a U.S. Army veteran.Gene worked at Caterpillar, John Deere and the University of Iowa, where he retired in 1999.Gene was a ham radio operator, enjoyed attending high school sports, and was an avid Iowa Hawkeyes and Chicago Cubs fan. He also really enjoyed spending time with his grandchildren.Survivors include his children, Steve (Mary Lund) Whitaker, Moline, and Janel (Kenny) Belk, Bettendorf; grandchildren, Courtney and Taylor Belk and Kylie, Kennidee and Grace Whitaker; brother, Herm Whitaker, Winter Haven, Florida; his former wife and friend, Marilyn Whitaker; and several nieces and nephews. Sign up to get each day's obituaries sent to your em...
Monday, January 23, 2017She was the group's first president.Her son, Jim Rack, said an early experience in her life set her on her path.The Rock Island, Illinois, native graduated from Rice Institute, now Rice University, in Houston with a bachelor’s degree in accounting in 1943.“She was told not to bother to take the CPA exam because she wasn’t going to get hired as a CPA,” Jim Rack said. Throughout her life, she used that as an example of the kind of discrimination she faced as a woman, he said.Though she couldn’t find work as an accountant or even a bookkeeper, Rack landed a job as a secretary at Robert H. Ray Geophysical Co. in Houston.And it was there she met her future husband, Armin Harold “Hap” Rack, a 1938 Rice graduate, when he returned to the company after World War II.The couple moved to New Orleans in 1946 and Rack joined the League of Women Voters, which led her into a variety of activities that eventually turned her attention to public education, her son Rick Rack said.“One of her primary concerns was women’s equality,” he said. “She believed that the way you could reach those goals was through education.”Jim Rack said New Orleans then had strong private schools, especially parochial schools, but his mother thought the public schools deserved support as well. “She felt that public education was important,” he said.“Long before the phrase became popular, Elizabeth Rack was a strong woman with noble goals,” said Barbara McPhee, a New Orleans educator who first met Ra...
