Wayne ''Sparky'' N. Beverlin

Wayne Beverlin ILLINOIS CITY, Ill. #45;- Wayne N. 'Sparky' Beverlin, 81, of Illinois City, died Monday, Aug. 21, 2000, at the Trinity West Medical Center in Rock Island. Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Thursday at the Geo. M. Wittich-Lewis Funeral Home. The Rev. Paul Brooks of the Providence Baptist Church in Illinois City. Pallbearers will be Mike Terrill, Brian Swanson, Kevin Swanson, Larry Brown, Lyle Beverlin, Tommy Hagloch, David Frieden Sr. and Tommy Watson Jr. Honorary pallbearers will be Ronald Miller, Bill Schrock, Dwight Irwin, Thomas Watson Sr. and Leland Ziegenhorn. Burial will be at the Eliza Creek Cemetery with full military honors by the Eliza American Legion. Visitation will be from 4-8 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home. A memorial has been established for Wayne Beverlin Memorial Fund. Mr. Beverlin was born Oct. 29, 1918, in Mercer County in Illinois, the son of Samuel F. and Caroline M. Noble Beverlin. He married Alma J. Smith on Feb. 2, 1946, in Muscatine. He was a member of the Providence Baptist Church where he was active in the past as a deacon and usher. He was an active member of the Eliza Lions Club, Mercer County Farm Bureau and the Eliza ...[more]

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rican Legion. He was a World War II veteran, having served in the Army Air Corp in Hawaii. He loved people, his grandchildren and great-grandchildren and was a good neighbor. He farmed all his life, growing grain and raising cattle. Survivors include his wife, Alma Beverlin of rural Illinois City; a daughter, Merry Cantrell and her husband, Don, of rural Illinois City; four grandchildren, Kelly Cantrell, Jeramy Cantrell and his wife, Jamie, Todd Cantrell and Brian Cantrell and his wife, Melissa; seven great-grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents; a brother, Cecil Beverlin; sisters, I. Marie Pettegrew, M. Pearl Frieden, V. Genevie Hagloch and Velma Oij; and infant siblings, Floyd and Eva.