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Desyl Bloom
Services are 10:30 a.m. Thursday in the Celebration of Life Chapel at Trimble Funeral and Cremation Center, Moline, with the Rev. Stacie Fidlar officiating. Burial is at Andover Cemetery. Visitation is one hour before the services. Memorials may be made to St. John's Lutheran Church, Rock Island, or American Cancer Society. The former Desyl Luella Swanson was born Aug. 24, 1914, in Lynn Center, to Carl W. and Antelia Peterson Swanson. She married Robert D. Bloom on June 21, 1941, in Andover. He died Dec. 23, 2004. She worked at Deere and Company and Desaulniers Printing during World War II. She was a member of St. John's Lutheran Church and the Ageless Group at the church and enjoyed bowling in earlier years. Desyl is survived by a sister-in-law, Marion Swanson, Silvis, and many nieces and nephews and their families. She was preceded in death by her husband; sisters, June Hultgren and Irene Youngberg; and brothers, Glenn and Sherman Swanson. Remembrances and condolences may be shared with the family at www.TrimbleFuneralHomes.com. 
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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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