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Marcus Ruiz
Funeral services are 10 a.m. Tuesday at Christ the King Catholic Church, Moline. Entombment is in St. Mary's Mausoleum, East Moline. Visitation is 3 to 7 p.m. Monday at Van Hoe Funeral Home, East Moline, where a rosary will be recited at 2:30 p.m. Memorials may be made to the Diabetes Foundation. Marcus Garcia was born April 25, 1921, in Mineola, Kan., daughter of Lorenzo and Antonia Gonzalez Garcia. She married Robert Ruiz on June 28, 1952, at Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church, Silvis. Marcus had worked as a machine operator and in the shipping department at John Deere Harvester, East Moline. Marcus enjoyed gardening, crocheting and doing home improvements. Survivors include her children, Roseann Fenner Ruiz, Carbon Cliff, Christina Ruiz Hernandez, Grandview, Iowa, Phillip Ruiz, Rock Island, and Cynthia Ruiz, Blue Grass; seven grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; and a great-great-grandson. She was preceded in death by her husband, Robert; sisters, Martina Garcia, Ramona Sandoval and Severina Ybarra; brothers, Isabel, Ray and Patrick; and a grandson, Joseph Hernandez Jr. Online condolences may be left for the family at www.vanhoe.com 
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Today is Tuesday, May 21, the 141st day of 2013. There are 224 days left in the year.
1863 -- 150 years ago: On Monday the 11th inst. on Center Ridge in Mercer County,some citizens got out their cannon to celebrate the taking of Richmond. The gun wasoverloaded and burst. No one was injured, but one 30-pound piece went though thesecond story of a house.
1888 -- 125 years ago: The old folks concert at the Harper Theater last night to benefit St.Luke's Cottage Hospital, attracted a large audience.
1913 -- 100 years ago: Unless depredation by vandals in Rock Island parks is halted,special policemen will be assigned to night duty to protect the flowers and other property.
1938 -- 75 years ago: Station WHBF has received a special citation from Washington forits participation in Air Mail Week, which was observed this week throughout the nation.
1963 -- 50 years ago: A 10-year high in employment in the Quad-City area was reachedat the end of the last quarter, according to an industrial employment barometer releasedtoday.
1988 -- 25 years ago: Pee Wee teams will be able to play baseball and softball as usualon Diamond Three at Dorrance Park this summer, but after that, the ball field is doomed.County crews have put the diamond back in shape after heavy trucks marred the playingfield earlier this spring. Illinois Department of Transportation crews drove onto it to makeborings for the relocation of the junction of Illinois 84 and the Port Byron-Hillsdale road.
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