Marguerite Nightingale

Aledo, Illinois
Marguerite Nightingale, 83, of Olathe, Kansas, formerly of Aledo and Rock Island, Illinois, died Saturday, December 10, 2005, in Olathe Medical Center, Olathe. She lived in Aledo for 14 years before moving to Kansas last year to be near her family.
Services are 3 p.m. Saturday, December 17, 2005, in the Celebration of Life Chapel at Trimble Funeral and Cremation Center, Coal Valley. Burial is in Coal Valley Cemetery. Visitation is one hour before the services. Memorials may be made to the American Diabetes Association.
The former Marguerite Loretta Whitlow was born August 20, 1922, in Martinsdale, Iowa, the daughter of Frank and Ethel (Hollingsworth) Whitlow. She married John Nightingale on January 11, 1963, in Rock Island. He died in 1979. She was a correctional officer for the Rock Island County Sheriff?s Department for 13 years, retiring in 1984. She and her husband owned and operated the Nightingale Café in Rock Island for seven years, and she also owned and operated a car wash/laundromat in Reynolds, Illinois, and a second hand store in Viola, Illinois.
Marguerite is survived by three grandchildren and their spouses, Steve and Jennifer Whitlow of Gardner, Kansas, Patricia and Scott Locke and Jamie and Edward Danskin, all of Manhattan Beach, California; nine great-grandsons; sisters, Marjorie Feight of Hemet, California, and Maxine Whiteley of Corydon, Iowa; and brothers, Raymond Whitlow of Hemet, and Harry Frank Whitlow of Moline. She was preceded in death by her son, LaVerne E. Whitlow, and seven brothers.
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