Donald Earl WENOS

WENOS, MCINTIRE, HILL, GARVIN, WATKINS, SMITH, SHARP, DAGGS, KISER, BLACKLEDGE, WHITMAN, AGUE

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 6/30/2007 at 12:26:55

Quad Cities Dispatch, IL
30 March 2007

Donald E. Wenos, 91, of Rock Island, formerly of Moline, died Wednesday, March 28, 2007, in Silver Cross Nursing Center, Rock Island. Services are 11 a.m. Saturday at First United Presbyterian Church, Moline. Cremation will follow the service and private burial will be in Rose Lawn Memorial Estate, Moline. The family will receive friends from 10 to 11 a.m. Saturday at the church. Memorials may be made to the church. Trimble Funeral and Cremation Center, Moline, is entrusted with arrangements.

Donald Earl Wenos was born June 20, 1915, in Clarion, Iowa, the son of Ole M. and Minnie McIntire Wenos. He married Ruby C. Hill on June 4, 1940, in Moline. He graduated from Moline High School and from Tri-Cities Manufacturing Trade School as a tool and die maker at Montgomery Elevator Company. He worked at the Rock Island Arsenal and Los Alamos Atomic Complex. He returned to Moline to start his own electronics business in Moline for 35 years, first at River Drive TV Sales and Service and then The TV Center, retiring in 1979. Don was an active member of First United Presbyterian Church, Moline, where he was the oldest living elder, and a Sunday school teacher and choir member for more than 50 years. He was a member of Quad City Banjoliers. He enjoyed music and golf, and entertaining the elderly with sing-alongs in nursing homes.

Don is survived by his wife of 66 years, Ruby; two daughters, Sally J. Garvin and Marjorie L. Watkins (Rev. Dr. Robert Watkins), both of Marion, Iowa; six grandchildren, Lynn Smith, Jeffrey Smith (Rene), Jennifer Sharp (Darin), Diann Daggs, Timothy Kiser (Jennifer), and Wendy Blackledge (Corey); 12 great-grandchildren; eight great-great-grandchildren; a brother, Harold D. Wenos, Rock Island; a sister, Marlowe Whitman (Robert), Oneida, Ill.; and several nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by a sister, Joy Ague. Don's family invites friends to express condolences, share a story or light a candle in his memory at www.TrimbleFuneralHomes.com.