Rock Island County IL Archives Obituaries.....Thompson Wendell, Blanche W. July 1, 1973 ************************************************ 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 Juhl gsjuhl@peoplepc.com June 7, 2007, 3:47 am MOLINE DAILY DISPATCH NEWSPAPER, MOLINE, ROCK ISLAND COUNTY, ILLINOIS, JULY 02, 1973. "MEMORIAL OBITUARY; A TRIBUTE PUBLISHED IN THE PAGES OF MOLINE DAILY DISPATCH NEWSPAPER, MOLINE, ROCK ISLAND COUNTY, ILLINOIS, JULY 02, 1973. Entered Into Eternal Rest, Sunday, July 1, 1973 Mrs. Alfred Wendell Mrs. Alfred Wendell, 80, of 1720 36th St., Moline, died Sunday in the Americana Nursing Center, Moline. Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Wendt Bros. Chapel with the Rev. Robert Birdsell of Plymouth Gordon United Church of Christ officiating. Burial will be in Rose Lawn Memorial Estates. Blanche Thompson was born in Mercer, Mo., and was married to Mr. Wendell in 1912 in Rock Island. He died in 1966. Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Lawrence Ferry and Mrs. Warren Griffin, both of Moline, and Mrs. Harry Arvanis, East Moline; two sons, James, Fithian, and Melvin, Roseville; 30 grandchildren; 27 great-grandchildren; a sister, Mrs. Bertha Lueders, East Moline, and a brother, Everett Thompson, Moline. Two grandchildren preceded her in death." Additional Comments: Mrs. Wendell's parents were James M. & Alta Altie A. Dudley Thompson of Mercer County, Missouri. Her grandparents were Henry H. & Amanda A. Waldow Waldian Dudley of Ashland County, Ohio, and Nathaniel & Lovina Kooken Thompson of Franklin County, Indiana and Ohio. Alfred & Blanche had six children, Dorothy Mae (Lawrence Lesley Ferry), Jennie Mae (Warren Noah Griffin), Alfreda (Harry Arvanis), James, Melvin, and Fithian Wendell. Mrs. Wendell is buried at Rose Lawn Memorial Estates, John Deere Road, Moline, Rock Island County, Illinois with her husband Alfred. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/il/rockisland/obits/t/thompson72gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ilfiles/ File size: 2.2 Kb