Moline Memories 1966: 2025

Saturday, November 1, 2025

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Moline Memories 1966: Reflections on the Moline High School Graduates of 1966: The Class the Stars Fell On

This post will fill the homespun Moliner with nostalgia and trivia.

Friday, October 31, 2025

Honoris Causa A Couple To Add To Our Golden Wedding Anniversary List - William Daniels and Bonnie Bartlett - 67 Years!

Here are all the Daniels-Bartlett links in one neat bundle of links.

William Daniels and Bonnie Bartlett got married June 30, 1951. Here is a wonderful description of their personal and professional lives.

Read about the Bartlett Performing Arts Center here.

Bonnie Bartlett and William Daniels - 72nd Anniversary Last Year!

Moline Actress Bonnie Bartlett Saved by Heroic Husband

William Daniels saved his wife Bonnie Bartlett from a burglar - by switching on the lights.

William Daniels, the actor who portrayed the beloved Mr. Feeny on "Boy Meets World," poked fun at his part in foiling an attempted burglary over the weekend at his California home.

“I struggled with an intruder. Took him to the ground. I beat him up. And he ran away with bruises all over him,” Daniels, 91, said with a chuckle during an interview with ABC News that aired Wednesday. “Would you like to print that? You better not, it’s a total lie.”

An unidentified individual attempted to break into Daniels’ San Fernando Valley home Saturday night while he was there with his wife, Bonnie Bartlett, a representative for the actor confirmed to Fox News.

Everyone seems to be reading this older post:

Downtown Moline, 1950s: The Barlett Insurance Agency was owned by Bonnie's father,
who helped found the Music Guild.

Friday, October 24, 2025

Happy 55th Anniversary and God's Blessings - Rex Bullock (MHS66) and LaWanda

Sunday, October 19, 2025

John Baker Honored at Free Republic - Hall of Heroes

John Baker was born in Davenport, Iowa and attended Moline High School from 1963 to 1966. At only 5 1 he was a gymnast before joining the army. His wife thought

that gave him the strength and stamina to carry his buddies to safety. He became a tunnel rat in Vietnam, a soldier who entered Viet Cong tunnels searching out the enemy and destroying their caches of war material. Baker made the military his career, retiring in 1989. He then began working as a computer analyst at a Veterans Hospital in South Carolina. In addition to serving as the Vice-President of the Congressional Medal of Honor Society, he serves as a member on the Nation s Monuments and Cemeteries Committee.

In 2008, the I-280 Bridge, connecting Davenport, Iowa with Rock Island, Illinois, was renamed the Sergeant John F. Baker, Jr., Bridge in honor of Baker.

FReeper Canteen ~ Hall of Heroes: Sgt John F Baker, Jr ~ 19 October 2025

John Baker was born in Davenport, Iowa and attended Moline High School from 1963 to 1966. At only 5 1 he was a gymnast before joining the army. His wife thought that gave him the strength and stamina to carry his buddies to safety. He became a tunnel rat in Vietnam, a soldier who entered Viet Cong tunnels searching out the enemy and destroying their caches of war material. Baker made the military his career, retiring in 1989. He then began working as a computer analyst at a Veterans Hospital in South Carolina. In addition to serving as the Vice-President of the Congressional Medal of Honor Society, he serves as a member on the Nation s Monuments and Cemeteries Committee.

In 2008, the I-280 Bridge, connecting Davenport, Iowa with Rock Island, Illinois, was renamed the Sergeant John F. Baker, Jr., Bridge in honor of Baker.

Monday, October 13, 2025

Yes, I Never Left the Moline Memories Blog, Which Began in 2010.

My email disappeared for no apparent reason. I have been active on this blog and on

Ichabod, The Glory Has Departed.

I have lived in Springdale, Ark since roughly 2010.

Friday, October 10, 2025

Happy 50th Wedding Anniversary - Kathleen Wilcox Kapetanakis (MHS 66) and George Kapetanakis

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We had wonderful teachers and friends, Garfield, in Moline, 60 years ago. If you cannot spot Kathy, please visit an ophthalmologist soon.

Saturday, October 4, 2025

Happy Golden Wedding Anniversary - Mary Parsons and Donald Caisley. God's Blessings for Many More

Celebrating last year - their 49th anniversary.

Don and Mary Parsons - this year

Thursday, October 2, 2025

Jorja Hepher - MHS 66 - and James Beert: September 21, 1968

James and Jorja, September 21, 1968.

Jim passed on to eternal life in 2014.
Her very good friend, Christina Jackson, died in Springdale, Arkansas in 2021,
1104 Letha Drive.

Tuesday, September 23, 2025

John Jackson and Jane Rosborough Jackson were married on December 22, 1973

50th Wedding Anniversary - John Jackson and Jane Rosborough

John Jackson and Jane Rosborough Jackson were married on December 22, 1973

Saturday, August 9, 2025

50th Wedding Anniversaries - Repeat with Links.

Sometimes one spouse does not live to the 50th wedding anniversary, but the date is still the golden anniversary, even in this grief-denying society of ours. I am listing all golden anniversary posts here and also putting this post in the left column with the rings graphic.

In the unlikely event of an oversight, please let the overworked and underpaid blogger know. I am adding the label Golden Wedding Anniversary to the ones previously posted. Click on the label list and see if you were included, or look on your post and see if the label is there.

Golden Wedding Anniversary labeled posts - linked here.

Significant anniversaries are also posted if one spouse belongs to The Class the Stars Fell On - MHS 66. That can be 10, 20, 24, 36, or any other year.

Honoris Causa - William Daniels & Bonnie Bartlett

Barbara Dodd & Daniel Hawotte

Jim & Jorja Hepner Beert

Barbara Stevens & Dan Lear

Jeff & Patty Puck Hall

Steve & Susan Ogle Quick

Rex & LaWanda Mae Bullock

Jeannine Lawson & Jay McFadyen

John & Diana Robeson

Gregory & Christina Ellenberger Jackson