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Glenna Ketner
Services will be 1 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 10, at Fippinger Funeral Home in Aledo. Private burial will be at the National Cemetery, Arsenal Island. Visitation is noon until the time of service at Fippinger's, where memorials may be left to Messiah Lutheran Church or the Shriner's Hospital for Children. Online condolences may be made at www.fippingerfuneralhome.com. She was born Sept. 17, 1925, in La Harpe, Ill., to O.V. and Beulah Long Sights. She graduated from La Harpe High School and married Paul F. Ketner Aug. 24, 1945, in Macomb. He died in 1998. Glenna was employed as an executive secretary for Consolidated Foods in Milan and later with the Continental Telephone Company, retiring in 1993. She was a member of Messiah Lutheran Church in Aledo. Survivors include two sons, Jay (Penny) Ketner, San Jose, Calif., and Michael Ketner, Boca Raton, Fla.; several nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents; husband; two brothers, J.C. and Buster. 
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Today is Monday, May 20, the 140th day of 2013. There are 225 days left in the year.
1863 -- 150 years ago: A petition is being circulated asking the city council to order awell bored in Market Square. It would be a great accommodation to the public.
1888 -- 125 years ago: At 1 p.m. on May 18 the Mississippi River flooded its banks atRock Island and destroyed the warehouse of the Rock Island Lumber Co. and damagedRock Island Arsenal power plant. Total loss is estimated at $100,000.
1913 -- 100 years ago: Residents of Sough Rock Island Township are circulating apetition favoring the annexation of that area to the City of Rock Island.
1938 -- 75 years ago: A group of state members of the National Grandmothers Clubmeeting in Rock Island are making plans to petition for the observance of a NationalGrandmothers Day.
1963 -- 50 years ago: Deere and Co. reported today that its U.S. and Canadian sales forthe first half of the 1963 fiscal year set an all time record of $323,716.628.
1988 -- 25 years ago: William G. Lawrence, first administrative director, has retired fromPECO Enterprises, Inc. Prior to his service at PECO, Mr. Lawrence was the civilianpersonnel officer at the Rock Island Arsenal.
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