This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Malloy, Sams Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/DNB.2ACI/369 Message Board Post: The Dispatch Moline, Illinois Sunday April 21, 2002 Page A6 Column 5 Charles Malloy Jr. Charles A. Malloy Jr., 81, of Coal Valley, died Saturday, April 20, 2002, at River Park Healthcare Center, Rock Island. Services are 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at Bates Funeral Chapel, Oskaloosa, Iowa. Trimble Funeral Home, Coal Valley, is in charge of local arrangements. Survivors include his wife, Barbara. Further arrangements are pending. ------------------- The Dispatch Moline, Illinois Monday April 22, 2002 Page A6 Column 4 Charles Malloy Jr. Charles Malloy Jr.; 81, Coal Valley, died Saturday, April 20, 2002, at Riverpark Health Care Center, Rock Island. Services are 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at Bates Funeral Home, Oskaloosa, Iowa. Burial is in Forest Cemetery, Oskaloosa. Visitation is 6:30-8 tonight. Memorials go to the American Cancer Society. Trimble, Coal valley, is in charge of local arrangements. Survivors include his wife, Barbara; daughters, Jackie Rick, Mesa, Ariz., and Judith Crawford, St. Paul, Minn.; seven grandchildren, 16 great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren. --------------------------------------------- His memorial card is as follows -- Charles A. "J.R." Malloy was one of nine children, the son of Charles A. Malloy Sr. and Etta Jane Sams Malloy, and was born on Thursday, October 14, 1920, in Mahaska County, near New Sharon, Iowa. He was married to Joyce Smith, and to this union was born two daughters, Jackie and Judith. Later, Charlie and Joyce were divorced. Early in his adult life, he worked in coal mines in the Oskaloosa area, hauling coal and as a heavy equipment operator, and was a member of the International Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE), 150. Charlie served his country during World War II in the Army Infantry. On January 10, 1946, he was united in marriage to Barbara K. Visscher at Galesburg, Illinois. In the early 1950's, Charlie and Barb moved from Oskaloosa, and started following the construction trade. He worked on many road and bridge projects, as a crane and drag line operator. He loved using the Manitawick drag lines. He later joined a pipe line company, mostly doing river cross! ings. In 1962, Charlie and Barbara moved to the Quad Cities, and established their residence, and he continued working until he retired in 1993. They moved to Coal Valley, Illinois in 1972. They bought their first boat in 1965, and spent many days cruising the Mississippi River, taking trips to St. Paul, Minnesota for vacations, and sharing with family and friends. Charlie was a "fabricator", no matter what project he was working on, and he could always find a way to make things work. After Barb retired in 1990 from the John Deere Distribution Center, they spent quality time together. Charlie started radiation treatments for throat cancer in early January, 2002, and his health progressively failed, and he was moved to the River Park Health Care Center in Rock Island, Illinois on March 22, 2002, and Charlie died at the care center on Saturday, April 20, 2002, at the age of 81 years, 6 months, and 6 days. Charlie is survived by his wife, Barbara of Coal Valley, Illinois; his 2 daughters and their husbands: Jackie (& Hugh) Rick of Mesa, Arizona, and Judith (& Robert) Crawford of Newport, Minnesota; 7 grandchildren; 16 great grandchildren; 3 great great grandchildren; 2 sisters: Clara Vander Zyl of Monroe, Louisiana, and Betty (& Dan) Fowler of Des Moines; and a half sister: Geneva Trager Sloan of Pleasant Hill, Iowa. He was preceded in death by his parents; a grandson: Jeff Jilovich; a sister: Mabel McGriff; and 5 brothers: Orville, Aca, Roy, Audrey, and Perry Malloy. ---