Marlene Evans


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Posted Online: July 28, 2012, 4:55 pm
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Funeral services for Marlene E. Evans, 85, of Moline, will be 1 p.m. Tuesday at Van Hoe Funeral Home, East Moline. Entombment will be in Moline Memorial Park Cemetery. Visitation will be one hour prior to services Tuesday at the funeral home.

Mrs. Evans died Friday, July 27, 2012, at her home. Memorials may be made to the Quad City Animal Welfare Center, Milan.

Marlene was born July 2, 1927, in Melrose, Iowa, daughter of Leslie and Faye Hollingsgaurd Blubaugh. She married Earl Evans in 1940 in East Moline. He died April 5, 2010.

She had worked for the former International Harvester, East Moline.

Marlene was a great person who was always working and never idle. She enjoyed walking, gardening, canning and cooking. She had a love for animals and was known to take in stray and wounded animals.

Survivors include her sisters, Mary (John) Pershy, Silvis, and Maxine Elmore, Des Moines, Iowa, and several nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents, husband and sister, Betty Coop.
















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