J. Tedell

Moline, Illinois
Martin J. Tedell, 84, of Moline, Illinois, died Tuesday, July 15, 2008, in Trinity Pathway Hospice at Terrace Park, Bettendorf, Iowa, after a valiant struggle of many years against the complications of diabetes.
Services are 11 a.m. Monday in the Celebration of Life Chapel at Trimble Funeral and Cremation Center, Moline. Burial is in Rock Island National Cemetery on Arsenal Island, where Moline American Legion Post #246 will present military honors. Visitation is 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home. Memorials may be made to a favorite charity.
Martin John Tedell was born November 28, 1923, in Davenport, Iowa, the son of Martin Sr. and Dorothy (Ramey) Tedell, and was a life-long resident of Moline. He graduated from Moline High School in 1942. A World War II Veteran, he enlisted in the U. S. Navy in 1944, and was stationed at San Diego Naval Hospital. As a Pharmacists Mate and Medical Corpsman, he cared for and treated Navy and Marine Corps wounded coming in from Guadalcanal. He was later deployed with his unit on the U.S.S. Wilkes-Barre to Okinawa where they established a base hospital camp on the beach.
In 1947, he married Lillian Sundquist. Martin later married Jeannette Ziemer Gustafson on November 27, 1971, in Andover, Illinois.
Upon his honorable discharge from the Navy, he returned to Moline and was employed by Illinois Bell Telephone Company. He retired in 1982 as a Right-of-Way Engineer after 37 years of service. During his years of service with Illinois Bell, he earned the Silver Gavel Award for participation in the Illinois Bell Telephone Speakers Bureau. He served a term as President of the Blackhawk Chapter of Telephone Pioneers and is a life-member.
In 1983, he became a Licensed Realtor with Mel Foster Real Estate Company in Moline. In 1985, he was called back to Illinois Bell to serve as a consultant for a major right-of-way project in Northern Illinois for a year.
He is a member of Moline American Legion Post #246.
Martin is survived by his wife of 37 years, Jeannette; three daughters and a son-in-law, Sara Goembel, Anne and Doug Kaiser, and Laura Enloe; two step-daughters and their husbands, Sandra and Glenn Miller and Susan and Bob Wientzen; grandchildren, Amy Ferguson and Blake and Ben Enloe; and step-grandchildren, Tara, Grant and Alex Miller and Curtis Wientzen. He is also survived by a brother-in-law, John Ziemer, a nephew, J. Donovan Tanner, a niece, Tara Epperson, and a cousin, Agneta Svensson of Stockholm, Sweden, along with other loved friends and relatives. He also leaves behind his much loved dog, Ziggy, his friend and faithful companion.
Martin?s family invites friends to sign his guestbook, share a story about him or light a candle in his memory at www.TrimbleFuneralHomes.com.
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