Rock Island County IL Archives Obituaries.....Betcher, DeKezel, Severns, Goethals , VERDA J. October 30, 1986 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/il/ilfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Sandra L. Elkins Juhl sljuhl1234@yahoo.com May 17, 2012, 1:34 pm The Daily Dispatch Newspaper, microfilm copy, Moline Public Library, Moline, Rock Island County, Illinois, USA, Thursday, 30 October 1986, Page 30 **OBITUARY: VERDA J. GOETHALS The Daily Dispatch Newspaper, microfilm copy, Moline Public Library, Moline, Rock Island County, Illinois, USA, Thursday, 30 October 1986, Page 30; Obtained: 09 May 2012. Verda J. Goethals, 67, of 2202 37th St., Moline, died today at Lutheran Hospital after a long illness. Services will be 1:30 p.m. Saturday at DeRoo Funeral Home, Moline, and 2 p.m. at her church, Sacred Heart, Moline. Burial will be in St. Mary's Mausoleum, East Moline. Visitation is 2 to 4 and 6 to 9 p.m. Friday. A liturgy will be recited at 6:30. The former Verda J. Betcher was born in Geneseo Oct. 13, 1919. She married Emiel DeKezel. He died in 1943. She married LaVerne Severns in 1945 in Rock Island. He died Oct. 17, 1953. She married Robert C. Goethals Sept. 18, 1954, in Rock Island. She was past president of the Heritage Chapter of the American Business Women's Association. She worked at Josephson's Jewelry, retiring in 1973 after 15 years. She worked at Lutheran Hospital for 13 years as a housekeeper, retiring in 1984 due to ill health. Survivors include the widower; daughters Joyce Sunderland, East Moline, and Joanne Rice, Moline; sons David Severns, Moline, and Robert M. Goethals, Rock Island; eight grandchildren and five great-grandchildren; her mother Grace Betcher, Moline, and a brother, Arnold, Annawan." [Transcribed 09 May 2012, SLJuhl RNBSC, Compiler & Family Genealogist; sljuhl1234@yahoo.com] File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/il/rockisland/obits/b/betcherd751gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ilfiles/ File size: 2.2 Kb