From the 28 July 1980 Dispatch:

Robert E. Couch

Orion - Robert E. Couch, 36, of Orion died Saturday at Moline Public Hospital.
Services will be 11 a.m. Tuesday at Trinity Lutheran Church, Rock Island.  Burial will be in Western Cemetery, Orion.
Visitation is until 5 this afternoon and from 7 to 9 tonight at Wheelan Funeral Home, Rock Island.
Memorals may be made to Trinity Episcopal Church or the Diabetes Association.
Mr. Couch was born in Moline.  He married Cheryl Hartwich in 1966 in Orion.
He was controller for PACE Development Co., East Moline.  He formerly taught at Scott Community College.
He was a member of and a lay reader at Trinity Episcopal Church.  He also was a member of the Orion Lions Club and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
Survivors include his widow; a daughter, Mary, at home; his father, Floyd, and a brother, Jack, both of Rock Island.