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Jillane Allison
Services are 11 a.m. Monday, Jan. 7, at Bethany Lutheran Church in Woodhull. Burial is at the Alpha Cemetery. Visitation is 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday at Peterson-Wallin-Knox Funeral Home in Alpha. Memorials may be left to the Cornerstone Reformed Church of Carbondale, and online condolences can be made at www.petersonwallinknox.com. She was born Aug. 17, 1952, in Galesburg, to W. John and Sylvia Rehn Allison. She graduated from AlWood High School in 1970, Monmouth College in 1974, and later received her master's degree in English and creative writing from the University of Illinois in Chicago. She married William Gasper Oct. 31, 1975. Jillane was employed in the English Department at the University of Illinois in Chicago for several years. She taught high school English and junior college English in Florida. She most recently was employed as an administrative assistant in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. She was a member of the Cornerstone Reformed Church in Carbondale and enjoyed writing poetry, exercising, gardening, reading and spending time with family. She is survived by one daughter, Nathalie Gasper, Chicago; her mother, Sylvia Petrovich, Alpha; two sisters, Debbie (Mike) Dodge, Loveland, Colo., Jane (Basil) Orechwa, Hustisford, Wis.; her special friend and companion, Dave Blomeyer, Carbondale; two nieces, Maria and Laura; two nephews, Jesse and Braden. She was preceded in death by her father; her stepmother, Gloria; and one brother, David. 
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Today is Saturday, May 25, the 145th day of 2013. There are 220 days left in the year.
1863 -- 150 years ago: The annual review of the fire department of this city took placeyesterday and made a fine showing with machines and hose carts in tip-top order.
1888 -- 125 years ago: Last night's prayer meeting at Central Presbyterian Church wascalled off due to water in the basement, residue of last week's flood.
1913 -- 100 years ago: The junior class of Rock Island High School will hold a riverexcursion on the steamer St. Paul next Tuesday.
1938 -- 75 years ago: The 75th Anniversary of the Rock Island Arsenal today finds thenation's largest ordinance manufacturing plant filling many important orders for the army.
1963 -- 50 years ago: Miss Patrice Daly, Rock Island, a senior at Rock Island HighSchool, won second place in the recent state public speaking contest held in Peoria underthe auspices of the Knights of Pythias.
1988 -- 25 years ago: Hampton's sesquicentennial committee and the Hampton HistoricalSociety have scheduled a full slate of activities, which will be held throughout the year, to celebrate the village's 150th birthday. The first celebration will be the Memorial Dayprogram at 10 a.m. May 30, at the Brettun and Black Store Museum on River Road. Therewill be a sesquicentennial display.
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