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Film TV Star Attends MHS 50th Reunion

Posted Online: Sept. 17, 2014, 11:23 pm

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By Jonathan Turner, jturner@qconline.com

Film and TV actor John Getz has a 40-year acting resume, but he never forgets his roots. The 67-year-old Moline High School alum attended his 50th class reunion last weekend. "It was great, great to see a lot of people," Mr. Getz said by phone Monday, adding that he still has relatives in the Quad-Cities. The last reunion he attended was his 25th, and the last time he was in the Quad-Cities was in early 2012, for the funeral of his late uncle, Tom Getz, former owner of Moline Forge and a community volunteer. "I just thought it would be interesting to see people again," Mr. Getz said. "It was an excuse to come back and see Moline, the river and everything, to wander around town, drink it all in. I miss the place. I had a good time growing up there. I like to taste it every once in a while." The son of William and Kaye Getz, Mr. Getz's father was president of Williams White & Co. In high school, Mr. Getz was on the swim team, and didn't have a lot of time for theater, but emceed his senior year variety show. He went to the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Wash., where he did some acting. "I had a great English teacher there who was a Shakespeare fanatic. He just encouraged me," Mr. Getz said. He graduated from the University of Iowa and studied at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, later appearing on Broadway in "M. Butterfly" and "They're Playing Our Song." While known mainly for an extensive list of TV and film credits, Mr. Getz said he loves theater and wants to do more. "It's a delightful challenge to get in front of an audience every night, the gymnastics you get to do with other people." Mr. Getz's film roles include the Coen brothers' "Blood Simple," "The Fly," "The Fly II," "Born on the Fourth of July," "Curly Sue," and "Zodiac." In 2010, he portrayed the attorney to Mark Zuckerberg's character in the Oscar-winning film "The Social Network." He played the adoptive father of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs in the 2013 biopic "Jobs." "We shot in the house Steve Jobs lived in, in Los Gatos (Calif.), where he built the first (Apple) machine in the garage," Mr. Getz said. His TV roles include "NCIS," "The Ghost Whisperer," "Criminal Minds," "Mad Men," "How I Met Your Mother," and in the past year alone "Bones," "Castle," "CSI," and the AMC series "Halt and Catch Fire." Mr. Getz filmed one episode for new ABC legal thriller, "How to Get Away With Murder" from Shonda Rhimes, creator of "Scandal" and "Grey's Anatomy." Now he's appeared in all of her shows, including "Private Practice." "She just throws together good pot-boilers," he said. "She gets a lot going on, with interesting actors." In Mr. Getz's latest film, "Trumbo," which he'll shoot in October in New Orleans, he plays a director in the McCarthy-era biopic of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo. It will co-star Louis C.K., Bryan Cranston, Helen Mirren and John Goodman.

Happy 87th Birthday to Lawrence Eyre's Mother - Colly

This is one of those priceless family photos,
Lawrence and his mother.
Salem honored her seven years ago for turning 80.

Off to the Flood - 1965

Check out today's Moline Dispatch!!! Page B3. Great shot titled "Flood of 1965." A bunch of fellows catching a ride from the Moline Water Works. You can clearly see John Delarosa, Don, Ackley, Jim Haney, Gary Allen, John Danner,Maybe Tim Cook, Duddly Blunt and Guy Dyer. There's a few I don't recognize. What a great photo!

Thank you Guy Johnson, for finding and posting this.

Gary Allen sees - Gary Allen I see...... Larry DeClerck, Malcolm Tribble,(hidden behind Larry),Bill Sheets, Bill Briesch, Jerry Gerard, ??(squeezed in the middle) Tom Westcott, ???, Jim Haney, Greg White, Don Ackley, Dave Rowell, and Gary Allen.

Happy 44th Anniversary Today - Tim and Joyce Ballard

Rest in Peace - Harriet Paschall - Dr. Ron Paschall's Wife - Ann Paschall's Mother

Harriet Paschall, mother of Ann (MHS66) and Sara,
widow of Dr. Ron Paschall, died at the age of 95.
Her funeral will be at Wendt Funeral Home.

MOLINE — Harriett B. Paschall, 95, of Moline, passed away Sunday, Aug. 24, 2014, at Heartland Health Care Center in Moline.

Visitation will be 4-7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 28, at Wendt Funeral Home in Moline. Services will be 10 a.m. Friday, Aug. 29, at First Congregation Church, 2201 7th Ave., Moline. Burial will be in Rock Island Memorial Park.

Harriett was born in Chicago on Sept. 15, 1918, to William B. and Ellen (Davies) Brown. On Aug. 28, 1943, in Moline, she married Ronald Rex Paschall, who preceded her in death Feb. 22, 2006. She attended Garfield Elementary School, John Deere Junior High, Moline High School, Augustana College (graduate), and the University of Iowa, completing one year toward a master’s program.

She was a member of First Congregational Church congregators, which she and her husband helped to originate, and she was head of the funeral committee for many years. She was also a member of The Alice Kennedy Circle of King’s Daughters for more than 60 years and was a Brownie and Girl Scout leader. She and her husband traveled extensively to Europe, England, New Zealand and Australia. They also traveled to Japan, Russia and Poland on People to People Tours. Her favorite place on earth was Grand Cayman, where her entire family would vacation. Her other passions were family, friends, baking and SHOPPING.

One of the highlights of Harriett's and Ron’s life was traveling to Bolivia to provide dental care to the natives. This resulted in bringing three Bolivian children to the University of Iowa Medical Center to receive special care. Eventually the youngest child was adopted by wonderful friends and became an American citizen.

Survivors include daughters, Sara (Ron) Olson of Holmen, Wis., and Ann (Dan) Halsted of Pine, Colo.; grandchildren:, Paige (Travis) Brush and R.L. (Amy) Olson II; and great-grandchildren, Megan (Aaron) Kopp, Abby Brush, Hunter Brush and Aidan Olson.

In addition to her husband and parents, she was preceded in death by her brother, Tom Brown; and two sisters, Marion Sorg and Betsy Blakley.

Memorials may be made to First Congregational Church of Moline, St. Jude Children’s Hospital or a charity of your choice.

Online condolences may be sent at www.wendtfuneralhome.com.

"We will always love you to the moon and back."

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John Baker Bridge,
Photo by Mary Parsons Caisley