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Minnie Jackson
Services for Minnie will be 11 a.m. Tuesday at the Spirit of Liberty Evangelist Church, Davenport. Visitation will be Tuesday one hour prior to the service at the church. Burial will be in Pine Hill Cemetery, Davenport. Wheelan-Pressly Funeral Home, Rock Island, is assisting the family. Minnie was born May 10, 1943, in Henderson, Tenn., daughter of Lester and Elvie Smith Reed. She married Robert Jackson in Rock Island. He preceded her in death on Jan. 30, 1996. She was a member of the Israel Outreach Ministry. Survivors include her children, Charles (Annie) Reed, Stanley Reed, Robin (Willie) Jackson; stepchildren, Larry (Gloria) Bolden, Gilbert Moore, Mickey (Liz) Carlson; two sisters; five brothers; and one stepsister. Minnie was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Robert; and four siblings. Online condolences may be left for the family at www.wheelanpressly.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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