Long Grove
			   Norbert Shannon

Norbert Shannon, 57, rural Long Grove, died this morning at
Osteopathic Hospital, Davenport.

Services will be 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at St. Anne's Catholic Church,
Long Grove.  Burial will be in the church cemeter.

Visitation is after 2 p.m. Tuesday at Hanrahan Funeral Home, DeWitt,
Iowa, where the rosary will be recited at 8 p.m.

Mr. Shannon was employed at the Bendix Co., Davenport.

He [was] born in Charlotte, Iowa.  He married Phyllis Sothmann in 1946
at Davenport.

Survivors include his wife; daughers, Judith, Nancy, Mary Ann and
Debra, all at home, and Katheryn, DeWitt; sons, John, St. Louis, Mo.;
James, Davenport, and Dennis, Long Grove; two grandchildren; sisters,
Mrs. Mary Long, Bettendorf, Mrs. Colette Ritslinger [sic-- DJN], and
Mrs. Carmilla Summers, Florida, and a brother, Virgil, Davenport.

Times Democrat (Davenport, Iowa)
Oct. 28, 1974
Page 16

			Shannon, Phyllis Jean

Phyllis Jean Shannon, 84, died on Thursday, November 29, 2007, at her
home in Long Grove. Visitation will be held on Sunday, December 2,
2007, from 2 to 6 p.m. at St. Ann's Catholic Church, Long Grove. A
prayer service will be held at 6 p.m. Funeral services and a Mass of
Christian Burial will be Monday, December 3, 2007, at 10:30 a.m. at
St. Ann's Catholic Church, with an additional visitation one hour
before the services. Burial will be in St. Ann's Cemetery. Halligan
McCabe DeVries Funeral Home is assisting the family with arrangements.

Phyllis Jean Sothmann was born April 1, 1923, to John and Edna (Kuehl)
Sothmann, in Davenport, Iowa. Phyllis graduated from Davenport High
School in 1940. She married Norbert James Shannon on March 2, 1946, at
St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Davenport. They moved to Long Grove in
the summer of 1953, and she spent the rest of her life on the family
farm. Norbert died in October of 1974.

Phyllis worked most of her life as a mother and housekeeper. She began
working for the North Scott School District in the fall of 1972, as a
cook at the Jr./Sr. High School. She later became the head cook for
the entire school district, retiring in 1987. She was very supportive
of all her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren and their
various activities. She was a great supporter of the North Scott
School District, having served as Music Boosters president in 1964,
while Norbert was also the Athletic Boosters president.

She was a very active member of St. Ann's Catholic Church, the
St. Ann's Guild, the morning mass group, Long Grove Civic League,
American Legion Auxiliary Post #532.

Memorials may be made to St. Ann's Catholic Church, Long Grove Fire
Dept., or the Special Olympics.

Phyllis is survived by a sister, Joan Lyngholm, Davenport; her 8
children; John (Linda), Placida, Fla., James (Janet), Bettendorf,
Kathy (Harvey) Henningsen, with whom she resided in Long Grove, Dennis
(Debbie), Eldridge, Judy, Darmstadt, Germany, Nancy, Long Grove, Mary
Ann Kelly, Eldridge, Debra, Long Grove, and adopted daughter Jane
Bergendahl, Long Grove; her grandchildren, Alan McClean, Jimmy, Danny,
Kyle, Carlie, Ryan and Jeremy Shannon, Chris, Nathan, and Pressley
Henningsen, Heather Claussen, Amy Hildebrandt, Jason Shannon, Carrie
Jackson, Kelly Green, Jesse Morris, Nick and Nicole Kelly, and Jordon
Shannon. There are 26 great-grandchildren, and 2 more on the way.
Online remembrances and condolences may be expressed by visiting
Phyllis' obituary at www.hmdfuneralhome.com 

Published in the Quad-City Times from 11/30/2007 - 12/1/2007.