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Harold Zwicker
Services are 11 a.m. Friday, Feb. 1, at Preemption United Methodist Church, Preemption, with the Rev. Cindy Rettig officiating. Burial is at Preemption Cemetery. Visitation is 4 to 7 p.m. Thursday at Trimble Funeral and Cremation Center, Coal Valley. Memorials may be made to the church. Harold Charles Zwicker was born Sept. 23, 1919, on his family farm in Preemption Township where he lived his entire life, to Reinhold Christian and Louise Charlotte Hartman Zwicker. He served in the U. S. Army Air Corps during World War II. He married Dorothy Holdsworth on March 10, 1943, in her family farm home near Preemption. He farmed his entire life and was a purebred Polled Hereford breeder, retiring in 1990. He was an active, lifelong member of Preemption United Methodist Church, and was a member of Mercer County Farm Bureau. He had a love and passion for farming and gardening. Harold is survived by his wife of 70 years, Dorothy; three children and their spouses, Judy and Bob Douglass, Overland Park, Kan., David and Naomi Zwicker, Aledo, and Marilyn and John Lamoreux, Lanark, Ill.; eight grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; and a sister, Helen Lindemann, Topeka, Kan. He was preceded in death by siblings, Alice Rathbun, Dorothy Koerper, and Wilbur Zwicker. Harold's family invites friends to share stories and condolences and light a candle in his memory at www.TrimbleFuneralHomes.com. 
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Today is Tuesday, May 21, the 141st day of 2013. There are 224 days left in the year.
1863 -- 150 years ago: On Monday the 11th inst. on Center Ridge in Mercer County,some citizens got out their cannon to celebrate the taking of Richmond. The gun wasoverloaded and burst. No one was injured, but one 30-pound piece went though thesecond story of a house.
1888 -- 125 years ago: The old folks concert at the Harper Theater last night to benefit St.Luke's Cottage Hospital, attracted a large audience.
1913 -- 100 years ago: Unless depredation by vandals in Rock Island parks is halted,special policemen will be assigned to night duty to protect the flowers and other property.
1938 -- 75 years ago: Station WHBF has received a special citation from Washington forits participation in Air Mail Week, which was observed this week throughout the nation.
1963 -- 50 years ago: A 10-year high in employment in the Quad-City area was reachedat the end of the last quarter, according to an industrial employment barometer releasedtoday.
1988 -- 25 years ago: Pee Wee teams will be able to play baseball and softball as usualon Diamond Three at Dorrance Park this summer, but after that, the ball field is doomed.County crews have put the diamond back in shape after heavy trucks marred the playingfield earlier this spring. Illinois Department of Transportation crews drove onto it to makeborings for the relocation of the junction of Illinois 84 and the Port Byron-Hillsdale road.
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