Lawrence M. Shannon

SHANNON, COOK

Posted By: Rebecca Foster (email)
Date: 9/10/2014 at 12:52:24

Bettendorf Lawrence M. Shannon, 85, of 1611 Golden Valley Drive, died Wednesday at St. Lukes Hospital.

Services will be 11 a. m. Saturday at McGinnis funeral Home. Burial will be in Glendale Cemetery, Le Claire, Iowa.

Visitation will be 4-8 p. m. Friday at the funeral home.

He had been employed on steamboats on the Mississippi river for years had been a supervisor at Rock Island Millworks many years and was employed at Annie Wittenmyer Home, Davenport, retiring in 1972.

He married Nina Marsen in 1945 in Davenport.

He was a graduate of Coyne Electrical College, Chicago.

Survivors include his wife, a daughter, Ruby (Mrs. Lyle) Cook, Le Claire, a son, M. Lawrence Shannon, Dixie, ala; 11 grandchildren; 20 great-grandchildren; and sisters, Letha (Mrs. Roy) Couch, Cincinnati, Ohio; Vivian Craig, Rock Island; and Gladys Cade, Elgin, Ill.

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