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Stuvie Wallen
Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Friday, Dec 7, at All Saints Episcopal Church, 2420 41st St., Moline. Visitation will be one hour prior to the service at the church. Burial will be at Rock Island National Cemetery, Arsenal Island. Memorials may be made to All Saints Episcopal Church or a charity of your choice. Stuvie was born on June 25, 1918 in Bernice, Okla., to Stuvie and Mittie Hames Wallen. He married Faye Pickens in 1940. He later married Evelyn Denen in Moline. Stuvie graduated from Oklahoma A&M College with a degree in mechanical engineering. He was employed at Springfield Armory to design and install plant equipment for producing the .30 Cal. M-1 Rifle. Having served in Europe during World War II with an Army engineer regiment and later as a military government officer in Germany, he returned to Springfield Armory in 1946 as a project engineer on aircraft weapons, particularly the 20MM M-61 (Gatling) machine gun. Stuvie transferred to the Ordnance Weapons Command at Rock Island Arsenal in 1955 as a senior engineer and deputy chief and remained active in the Army Reserve after World War II. He completed Command and General Staff College and retired with 23 years of service as a lieutenant colonel in the Ordnance Corps. Stuvie retired in 1977 as director of the Rodman Laboratory of Rock Island Arsenal with 37 years of service. Stuvie enjoyed playing bridge, reading, gardening and traveling. He visited all the U.S. states and more than 60 foreign countries. Survivors include wife, Evelyn Wallen, East Moline; daughter, Mary Denen, St. Louis, Mo.; son, Douglas Wallen, Oakton, Va.; grandchildren, Stephanie Grove, Wheeling, W.Va.; and Douglas "Chip" (Ellen) Wallen; five great-grandchildren; sisters, Kathleen (Charles) Cahlan, Sunnyvale, Calilf., and Betty Cahlan, Carmichael, Calif.; and brother, George (Saralee) Wallen, Lakewood, Colo. He was preceded in death by his parents; and brothers, LeRoy Wallen and Eugene Wallen. 
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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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