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Elaine Lanie Walker
She departed this life on Thursday, Aug. 23, 2012, at St. Anthony's Nursing and Rehab Center. She was born July 2, 1928, in Corinth, Miss., the daughter of Edison and Anna Bell Orricks Alexander. She married Harold Green Walker on March 21, 1945. She accepted Christ as her Savior at an early age and was a member of Progressive Baptist Church, Davenport. She retired from Bradley University in 1984, as a housekeeper. She was a devoted mother and loved to cook, sew and fish. Survivors include her sons, Harold Walker Jr., Bourbonnais, Ill., Charles Walker, Kankakee, Ill., Karl Walker, Chicago, Earnest Walker, Iowa City, Iowa, and Christopher Walker, Houston, Texas; and daughters, Charlotte Murray and Pamela Walker, Rock Island. She was preceded in death by her parents; husband; brother, twin sisters and two daughters. Online condolences may be expressed to Elaine's family by visiting her obituary at www.orrsmortuary.com. 
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Today is Tuesday, June 18, the 169th day of 2013. There are 196 days left in the year.
1863 -- 150 years ago: Fanatics have grown wonderfully civil since the president snubbedthem by revoking Burnside's infamous attack upon the freedom of the press.
1888 -- 125 years ago: The Interstate baseball league has collapsed, leaving Davenport'sleading team without a league connection.
1913 -- 100 years ago: Passengers were stunned yesterday when lightning struck a LongView street car at 9th Ave. and 25th St.
1938 -- 75 years ago: X-ray examinations today traced the trouble with Dizzy Dean's$250,000 pitching arm to a pulled muscle back of his right shoulder blade.
1963 -- 50 years ago: Radio station WQAD in Moline is being considered by the NationalCivil Defense Office for selection as a "secured communication center" Mrs. Gault,executive deputy director of the Moline Civil Defense unit reported today.
1988 -- 25 years ago: "Marketplace 29 A.D." an unusual vacation Bible school programthat will allow children to live three days as people did during the Bible Times June 21-23. The three day program, is a joint project of Aldersgate and Bethel-Wesley UnitedMethodist churches.
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