Birdella M. Herrig

HERRIG, HORAN, POLHEMUS

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Quad-City Times, The (IA) - January 23, 2007, GenealogyBank.com

Deceased Name: Birdella M. Herrig

MOLINE - Birdella M. Herrig, 86, of Moline, died January 22, 2007, at her home.

Rite of Christian Burial will be 9:30 a.m. Jan. 25, 2007, at St. Mary's Catholic Church, Moline. Visitation will be 4-8 p.m. Wednesday with a rosary at 4 p.m. at Esterdahl Mortuary & Crematory Ltd., 6601 38th Ave., Moline. Burial will be in Springbrook, Iowa. Memorials may be made to St. Mary's Catholic Church, American Cancer Society, or Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic Church, Springbrook.

Birdella was born Sept. 28, 1920, in Jackson County, Iowa, to John M. and Mary Ellen Horan Herrig.

During World War II she was a civilian employee inventory clerk working on the McClinnian Air Force Base in Sacramento, Calif. She also had been a sales clerk in a dress shop in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. For 42 years she owned and operated Birdella's Beauty Boutique, Moline. In 1983 until January 2006 she was a beautician at Louise's Looking Glass, Moline. She most recently worked at 15th Street Hair Designers, Moline.

She had been a member since 1941 of St. Mary's Catholic Church, where she had been an active member in the Altar & Rosary Society. She was a chapter member since 1958 of the ABWA Plow Capital Chapter. She was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution. She was the national vice president for 17 years for the Beta Beta Lambda Society and also the local president for the McGovern Chapter of the Beta Beta Lambda Society. She was a member of the VFW Auxiliary Willard L. Velie Post since 1944. She was a social member of the Viking Club and the Svithoid Club. She had been an election judge for Rock Island County for 20 years.

Birdella was always known for having a camera wherever she went and she loved to share the pictures that she had taken with friends and family.

She is survived by sister, Coletta Polhemus, Severna Park, Md.; sister-in-law, Mercedes Herrig, Bellevue, Iowa; 32 nieces and nephews; and 100 plus great nieces and nephews, great-great-nieces and -nephews and great-great-great-neices and -nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents, two sisters and two brothers. Online condolences may be expressed to Birdella's family by visiting her obituary at www.esterdahlmortuary.com.

Author: Quad-City Times Staff
Edition: All
Page: B5
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