L. Nussear

Hampton, Illinois
Ernest L. Nussear, 83, of Hampton, Illinois, died Monday, November 5, 2007, in Rosewood Care Center, Moline.
Services are 11:00 a.m. Saturday in the Celebration of Life Chapel at Trimble Funeral and Cremation Center, Moline. Visitation is an hour prior to the services. The Reverend Steven Loftus will officiate. Burial is in Cordova Cemetery. Memorials may be made to the Ernest L. Nussear Memorial Fund.
Ernest Lee Nussear was born March 15, 1924, in Tuscola, Illinois, the son of James Walter and Mammie Lucinda (Grubb) Nussear. He married Betty Jean Douglas in November of 1975, in Hampton, Illinois. She died May 20, 1999.
Ernest worked for Farmall driving tractors off the line for 25 years, retiring in 1985. After retirement, he delivered for Porters in Hampton until 2005.
Mr. Nussear was a member of St. Mary?s Catholic Church in Hampton. He enjoyed fishing and gardening. He spent every morning at Hardee?s on 41st Street in Moline, enjoying biscuits and gravy with his cronies. In the afternoons he would do the same at Porters.
Ernest is survived by a step-daughter, Freda Pohlmann of Bluegrass, Iowa, sisters, B. Esther Hess of Eagle Bend, Minnesota, and Patricia Feist of Kernersville, North Carolina, a niece, Mara-Leah Coston, and nephews, Thomas and Terry Feist, and Barry, Byron, and Craig Hess, and Judy Polek, of Hampton, who was like a daughter to Ernest. He was preceded in death by his wife, Betty Jean, his lady friend, Anna Steffen, who passed away October 25, 2007, and his dog, spot.
The family invites you to share memories and condolences, and light a candle in Ernest?s memory at www.TrimbleFuneralHomes.com.