Richard C. Anderson

Hi, Tom. I read in the online newspaper that your mother passed away very recently. She had an amazingly long life, but I'm sure you will still miss her. My mother is expecting to celebrate her 100th in August, 2023. My condolences to you and your family.

Living in Moline as long as we did, I'd run into Ron here and there over the years.  Really nice guy to talk with and he led an interesting life to boot.  RIP, Ron.  Glad I knew you.

Rick and I played on the high school baseball team and he was always with a smile until someone would catch up to his great curve!  But that wasn't often.  He had a positive and encouraging word for his teammates.  He was a devoted and loyal "Moliner" all his life.  Yes, he'll be missed in the stands of MHS.

You can't picture Skip without a smile.  Always friendly.  In our Air Force days long ago we just happened to run into Skip at the St. Louis airport and had a short but friendly talk.  Then after we returned to live in Moline our daughter was in the same classroom in school before Skip and family moved to East Moline.  Nice guy.

It's coming up on nine years since Ed passed away.  I don't know why but it just came to me the last time Ed and I talked with each other.  It was at a filling station in Biloxi, Mississippi.  I was a nearly brand new USAF 2nd Lieutenant stationed at Keesler AFB.  Ed was traveling to an assignment in Florida and, coincidentally, stopped in Biloxi to refuel just as I was doing the same thing at the same place at the same time.  We both recognized each other and spent time talking and bringing each other up to date.  Both of us serving our country in the military.  Then we went on our way.  I remember Ed made me feel like an old friend.  And, of course, his smile!  Did anyone in our class have a better smile?

Posted on: Apr 10, 2022 at 4:33 AM

Posted on: Jan 11, 2021 at 10:56 AM

Thank you for your kind words for Linda Davis. It was good to read your “bio” comments, too. It sounds like you have had a wonderful life since MHS.

So sorry to read "Mister Nachbauer" passed away.  He was a big part of my junior high school days and my sophomore baseball coach.  He was even my boss for a couple of flooring jobs many years ago.  But what I'll remember him best for was being the "monitor" of the dance floor in the Coolidge rec at noon.  He made sure the young junior high boys and girls didn't dance too close!  One more story ... many years after my schooling I was walking out of a theater in Moline when I heard a voice from behind me say, "Hello, Mr. Anderson."  Yep.  It was Mister Nachbauer.  We walked along a short distance and talked and I took note that he still had that erect posture and confident walk at a pretty senior age.  But I was most impressed that he remembered who I was in a respectful manner.  Quite a gentleman.  May he rest in peace.

Jim was a good guy.  An athlete in high school that played basketball on a pretty good 1960-1961 Moline basketball team that had a 22 win 5 loss season bookended by a season opening loss to East Rockford and a season ending loss in the Sub State Tournament to the same E-Rabs of East Rockford.  He was also an excellent baseball player known for his batting.  He was a good teammate.  In later years I worked at the Farmall Plant with Jim.  It was a career stopover for both of us.  Just a nice guy.

Cheryl will be remembered for many things, I'm sure.  But I remember her big smile, shown in both of her pictures on this page, and the personality that smile represented.  Knew her best at Coolidge, but her husband to be was a neighbor of mine his senior year and my junior year at MHS.  He gave me rides to MHS and I even visited his old hometown of Mason City, Illinois, with him once.  Good people.  I hope Cheryl's family finds peace at this trying time.

Posted on: Apr 10, 2020 at 4:35 AM

Posted on: Feb 04, 2020 at 4:51 AM

Rick,

Here is a photo of Tom & Barbara Ewing when I saw them in the spring of 2018 at their then home in Ocala, FL.

Jerry,

Posted on: Jun 07, 2019 at 2:26 PM

Please email me the location, times and day and date of the 75th Birthday Party and I'll put it on the class website. captainricka@yahoo.com