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Lucy DeWaelsche
The family will observe a private ceremony. DeRoo Funeral Home, Moline, is handling arrangements. Lucy was born July 18, 1913, in Moline, the daughter of Octaaf and Valerie DeFauw DeWaelsche. She attended Sacred Heart School in Moline and graduated from St. Joseph High School, Rock Island. She was employed for many, many years at Sunnyside Nurseries and Greenhouses, which was on the site of the expanded Lutheran Hospital in Moline. Always driving her own car, Lucy travelled through much of America with her nieces and nephews. She also enjoyed many visits to Belgium and Europe. After her retirement she was very active in the Center for Belgian Culture in Moline. Lucy loved her family and was the beloved "Aunt Lu" to her many nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents; brother, Marcel DeWaelsche; sisters, Madeleine Coppens, Irene Staes and Germaine Thomas; nephew, Thomas DeWaelsche; and niece, Joanne Hoyt. She is survived by nieces and nephews, Kay Dellos, David Coppens, Paul Coppens, Connie Dolan, Susan Hyndman, Pat Brown, Robert Staes, Jack Thomas, Linda Powrie, Steven Thomas and Jeffrey Thomas. In recent years, Lucy was cared for by great-nephew, David Dellos, wife, Laura, and great-great-nephews, Adam and Ben Dellos, who enjoyed her wit, independence and love of politics. Memorials may be made to the Dean Nina Coppens Endowed Scholarship Fund at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, Southwick Hall 250, One University Ave., Lowell, MA 01854-2882. Online condolences may be left at www.deroofuneralhome.com. 
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Today is Sunday, May 19, the 139th day of 2013. There are 226 days left in the year.
1863 -- 150 years ago: The Rt. Rev. Harry I. Witherspoon, D.D. Bishop of Illinois, willpreach in Trinity (Episcopal) Church, in this city this evening.
1888 -- 125 years ago: At 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon the Mississippi River flooded itsbanks at Rock Island, destroying the warehouse of the Rock Island Lumber companyand damaging the Lumber Company and arsenal power plant. Total loss isestimated at $100.000.
1913 -- 100 years ago: Residents of South Rock Island township are circulating a petitionfavoring the annexation of that area to the city of Rock Island.
1938 -- 75 years ago: Mrs. Thomas Ackles, of Rock Island, has been elected president ofthe Playcrafters for the next season. She succeeds Warren Leonard.
1963 -- 50 years ago: Some 8,000 people filed through the gates of Rock Island Arsenal on Saturday to view a display of a part of the nation's armed strength. The occasion was theannual observance of Armed Forces Day.
1988 -- 25 years ago: Willis Kuschmann, of Moline, who already has won his laurels as oneof the most artistic men in the Quad-Cities area, has a new hobby. He is deeply involvedin miniature railroading. At the age of 88, when many other seniors are dozing in theirchairs or sitting before the television, Mr. Kuschmann is planning and working on hiscollection.
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