M. Deininger

Coal Valley, Illinois
Jean M. Deininger, 84, of Coal Valley, Illinois, died Saturday, June 13, 2009, in OSF St. Francis Medical Center, Peoria, Illinois.
Services are 11 a.m. Saturday at New Hope Baptist Church, Coal Valley. Burial is in Coal Valley Cemetery. Visitation is 4 to 7 p.m. Friday at Trimble Funeral and Cremation Center, Coal Valley. Memorials may be made to the church.
The former Marvie Jean Snodgrass was born July 30, 1924, in Venis, Arkansas, the daughter of John E. and Lucille E. (Bolin) Snodgrass. She married William L. Deininger on May 11, 1947, in Farmington, New Mexico. He died January 24, 2004. She was an instructor for the American Red Cross for 22 years, retiring in 1989. She was an Emergency Medical Technician and volunteered with the Coal Valley Ambulance.
She was a past president of the Horace Mann PTA, a member of New Hope Baptist Church and Eastern Star, and served as an election judge in Rock Island County. She loved traveling, especially road trips, and gardening, especially peonies and roses, and enjoyed outdoor activities and volunteering.
Jean is survived by a daughter, Karma Deininger Feldman and her husband, Dr. Dean Feldman of North Barrington, Illinois; two sons, Dewey C. Gabbard and his wife Barbara of Albany, Illinois, and John R. Gabbard and his wife, Patricia J. of Chesterfield, England; 23 grandchildren; a sister-in-law, Ginger Snodgrass of Springdale, Arkansas; and Dean?s sisters to whom she was close, Jody Thorp of Aledo, Illinois, and Jill Feldman-Huber of Springfield, Illinois. She was preceded in death by two brothers, five sisters, and one grandchild.
Jean?s family invites friends to sign her guestbook, share a story or light a candle in her memory at www.TrimbleFuneralHomes.com.