Aylene Walsh Anderson, 91, of Cambridge, died Saturday, Sept. 29, 2007, at Trinity Medical Center, West Campus, Rock Island.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 3, at the Cambridge Lutheran Church. The Rev. Al Beck will officiate. Burial will be in Rosedale Cemetery, Cambridge. Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at the Cambridge Chapel of Stackhouse-Moore Funeral Services. Memorials may be made to the Cambridge Lutheran Church or Delta Kappa Gamma's Books for Babies.
The former Aylene Walsh was born June 17, 1916, in Cambridge, the daughter of John and Alma Opalka Walsh. She attended rural Cambridge schools and graduated from Cambridge High School in 1934. Aylene then went to Western Illinois University in Macomb for two years and taught school in a one-room schoolhouse east of Cambridge for a short time. She then went to Gem City Business School in Quincy, Ill., and worked as an office secretary for John Deere in Moline.
Her marriage to Milton F. Anderson took place on April 30, 1939, in Cambridge. He died July 27, 1995.
Mrs. Anderson began teaching sixth grade for the Cambridge School District in 1955 and retired from that position in 1979. During that time she continued her education by taking evening and summer classes. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Western Illinois University and a Masters of Science degree from the University of Illinois.
Her memberships include the Cambridge Lutheran Church, where she had been a board member, and the WELCA group of the church. Other memberships were Delta Kappa Gamma, Omega Chapter (past president), the American Association of University Women, Kewanee Branch (past president), Cambridge Women's Club, the Henry and Stark County Retired Teacher's Association, and Bridge and Pitch Clubs.
She loved to shop, travel, garden, golf and enjoyed the family farm.
Surviving are two daughters and sons-in-law, Judy and Richard Hansen, Kankakee, Ill., Mary and Lewis Maggiora, Oakland, Calif., and Cambridge; two grandchildren, Kari Hansen and her fiancee, Warren Monk, Herscher, Ill., and Chad Hansen and his wife, Cheryl, Pontiac, Ill.; and a great-grandson, Toby Michael Hansen, Pontiac. Also surviving are a sister-in-law, Virginia Anderson, Galesburg; and several nieces and nephews. Her parents; her husband; a son, Michael; and two brothers, Vernon and Leslie Walsh, preceded her in death.
A video tribute may be viewed and condolences expressed by visiting Aylene's obituary at www.stackhousemoore.com.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 3, at the Cambridge Lutheran Church. The Rev. Al Beck will officiate. Burial will be in Rosedale Cemetery, Cambridge. Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at the Cambridge Chapel of Stackhouse-Moore Funeral Services. Memorials may be made to the Cambridge Lutheran Church or Delta Kappa Gamma's Books for Babies.
The former Aylene Walsh was born June 17, 1916, in Cambridge, the daughter of John and Alma Opalka Walsh. She attended rural Cambridge schools and graduated from Cambridge High School in 1934. Aylene then went to Western Illinois University in Macomb for two years and taught school in a one-room schoolhouse east of Cambridge for a short time. She then went to Gem City Business School in Quincy, Ill., and worked as an office secretary for John Deere in Moline.
Her marriage to Milton F. Anderson took place on April 30, 1939, in Cambridge. He died July 27, 1995.
Mrs. Anderson began teaching sixth grade for the Cambridge School District in 1955 and retired from that position in 1979. During that time she continued her education by taking evening and summer classes. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Western Illinois University and a Masters of Science degree from the University of Illinois.
Her memberships include the Cambridge Lutheran Church, where she had been a board member, and the WELCA group of the church. Other memberships were Delta Kappa Gamma, Omega Chapter (past president), the American Association of University Women, Kewanee Branch (past president), Cambridge Women's Club, the Henry and Stark County Retired Teacher's Association, and Bridge and Pitch Clubs.
She loved to shop, travel, garden, golf and enjoyed the family farm.
Surviving are two daughters and sons-in-law, Judy and Richard Hansen, Kankakee, Ill., Mary and Lewis Maggiora, Oakland, Calif., and Cambridge; two grandchildren, Kari Hansen and her fiancee, Warren Monk, Herscher, Ill., and Chad Hansen and his wife, Cheryl, Pontiac, Ill.; and a great-grandson, Toby Michael Hansen, Pontiac. Also surviving are a sister-in-law, Virginia Anderson, Galesburg; and several nieces and nephews. Her parents; her husband; a son, Michael; and two brothers, Vernon and Leslie Walsh, preceded her in death.
A video tribute may be viewed and condolences expressed by visiting Aylene's obituary at www.stackhousemoore.com.
Aylene Walsh Anderson, 91, of Cambridge, died Saturday, Sept. 29, 2007, at Trinity Medical Center, West Campus, Rock Island.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 3, at the Cambridge Lutheran Church. The Rev. Al Beck will officiate. Burial will be in Rosedale Cemetery, Cambridge. Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at the Cambridge Chapel of Stackhouse-Moore Funeral Services. Memorials may be made to the Cambridge Lutheran Church or Delta Kappa Gamma's Books for Babies.
The former Aylene Walsh was born June 17, 1916, in Cambridge, the daughter of John and Alma Opalka Walsh. She attended rural Cambridge schools and graduated from Cambridge High School in 1934. Aylene then went to Western Illinois University in Macomb for two years and taught school in a one-room schoolhouse east of Cambridge for a short time. She then went to Gem City Business School in Quincy, Ill., and worked as an office secretary for John Deere in Moline.
Her marriage to Milton F. Anderson took place on April 30, 1939, in Cambridge. He died July 27, 1995.
Mrs. Anderson began teaching sixth grade for the Cambridge School District in 1955 and retired from that position in 1979. During that time she continued her education by taking evening and summer classes. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Western Illinois University and a Masters of Science degree from the University of Illinois.
Her memberships include the Cambridge Lutheran Church, where she had been a board member, and the WELCA group of the church. Other memberships were Delta Kappa Gamma, Omega Chapter (past president), the American Association of University Women, Kewanee Branch (past president), Cambridge Women's Club, the Henry and Stark County Retired Teacher's Association, and Bridge and Pitch Clubs.
She loved to shop, travel, garden, golf and enjoyed the family farm.
Surviving are two daughters and sons-in-law, Judy and Richard Hansen, Kankakee, Ill., Mary and Lewis Maggiora, Oakland, Calif., and Cambridge; two grandchildren, Kari Hansen and her fiancee, Warren Monk, Herscher, Ill., and Chad Hansen and his wife, Cheryl, Pontiac, Ill.; and a great-grandson, Toby Michael Hansen, Pontiac. Also surviving are a sister-in-law, Virginia Anderson, Galesburg; and several nieces and nephews. Her parents; her husband; a son, Michael; and two brothers, Vernon and Leslie Walsh, preceded her in death.
A video tribute may be viewed and condolences expressed by visiting Aylene's obituary at www.stackhousemoore.com.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 3, at the Cambridge Lutheran Church. The Rev. Al Beck will officiate. Burial will be in Rosedale Cemetery, Cambridge. Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at the Cambridge Chapel of Stackhouse-Moore Funeral Services. Memorials may be made to the Cambridge Lutheran Church or Delta Kappa Gamma's Books for Babies.
The former Aylene Walsh was born June 17, 1916, in Cambridge, the daughter of John and Alma Opalka Walsh. She attended rural Cambridge schools and graduated from Cambridge High School in 1934. Aylene then went to Western Illinois University in Macomb for two years and taught school in a one-room schoolhouse east of Cambridge for a short time. She then went to Gem City Business School in Quincy, Ill., and worked as an office secretary for John Deere in Moline.
Her marriage to Milton F. Anderson took place on April 30, 1939, in Cambridge. He died July 27, 1995.
Mrs. Anderson began teaching sixth grade for the Cambridge School District in 1955 and retired from that position in 1979. During that time she continued her education by taking evening and summer classes. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Western Illinois University and a Masters of Science degree from the University of Illinois.
Her memberships include the Cambridge Lutheran Church, where she had been a board member, and the WELCA group of the church. Other memberships were Delta Kappa Gamma, Omega Chapter (past president), the American Association of University Women, Kewanee Branch (past president), Cambridge Women's Club, the Henry and Stark County Retired Teacher's Association, and Bridge and Pitch Clubs.
She loved to shop, travel, garden, golf and enjoyed the family farm.
Surviving are two daughters and sons-in-law, Judy and Richard Hansen, Kankakee, Ill., Mary and Lewis Maggiora, Oakland, Calif., and Cambridge; two grandchildren, Kari Hansen and her fiancee, Warren Monk, Herscher, Ill., and Chad Hansen and his wife, Cheryl, Pontiac, Ill.; and a great-grandson, Toby Michael Hansen, Pontiac. Also surviving are a sister-in-law, Virginia Anderson, Galesburg; and several nieces and nephews. Her parents; her husband; a son, Michael; and two brothers, Vernon and Leslie Walsh, preceded her in death.
A video tribute may be viewed and condolences expressed by visiting Aylene's obituary at www.stackhousemoore.com.
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