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- Laura Holman, 90, of Rock Island, formerly of Sterling, died Sunday, July 10, 2011, at Coventry Living Center, Sterling.
Funeral services will be at 11:30 a.m. Thursday, July 14, at the McDonald Funeral Home, 505 1st Ave., Sterling, with the Rev. Richard Fassig of Rock Falls United Methodist Church officiating. There will be a visitation Thursday from 10-11:30 a.m. at the funeral home. Burial will be at Oak Knoll Memorial Park, Sterling. A memorial has been established to Cunningham Children's Home in Urbana, Ill.
Laura was born Aug. 4, 1920, in Kinmundy, Ill., the daughter of R.F. and Edna Elder Maxey. She lived in Kinmundy until her parents moved to Polo in 1935, and later moved to Rock Falls, where she graduated in 1938. She married Joseph R. Holman on May 22, 1943, at the Rock Falls United Methodist Church. They moved to Rock Island in 1953, when her husband was transferred by the Dohrn Transfer Company. She was employed by the Illinois Bell Telephone Co. in Sterling and as a cashier at Kroger Supermarket in Moline.
Laura was a member of Bethel Wesley United Methodist Church in Moline. Laura and Joseph enjoyed spending 25 winters at Sleepy Valley Resort in Mission, Texas, where they enjoyed the park activities and company of many friends they had made there.
She really enjoyed the large family gatherings, her flower garden, quilting and bluegrass music.
Survivors include her husband, Rock Island; two daughters, Susan (Joe) Westerdale, Reynolds, and Joyce (Cliff) Bearden, Harrison, Tenn.; one son, John (Annaliese) Holman, Spokane, Wash.; two sisters, Edna Lucille Stewart-Meyer, Sterling, and Martha Smith, Sterling; one brother, William Maxey, Rockford, Ill.; seven grandchildren; and 14 great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents; three sisters, Anita May, Wanda Elizabeth and Frances Jean Janssen; three brothers, Robert, Marion and Dale Maxey; one granddaughter, Sherry Sue Dickerson; and two sisters in infancy.
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