Raymond W. Weideman, 85, East Moline, passed away on Saturday, May 23, 2015 at his home, surrounded by his family. Funeral services are 10 AM Thursday at Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church, Silvis. Burial is in Greenview Memorial Gardens, East Moline. Visitation is 4-7 PM Wednesday at Van Hoe Funeral Home Ltd., East Moline, where a prayer service will be read at 3;30 PM. Memorials may be made to Our Lady of Guadalupe Church, where he was a member. Ray was born on April 27, 1930 in Fowler, IL, the son of Alfred and Ella Weideman. He married Madlin Howerton on October 14, 1950 in Moline. She died on November 25, 2006. Ray started working at the Quincy, IL airport when he was 15. At 16 he began working at the International Shoe Company. He moved to the Quad Cities in 1949 and started at McLaughlin's in Moline. He went to Fairbanks Morse in 1951 and in 1966 to John Deere Spreader Works, Moline and retired from there in 1990. Realizing he wasn't ready to retire, he spent 18 years at Waterworks Car Wash in East Moline and from 1993-2012 worked part time for HyVee Silvis as a delivery man. Ray was often referred to as Mr. Fixit, doing various repair work and power washing. He didn't like idle time and loved helping people. Survivors include, daughters and sons-in-law Norma Jean and Jerry Fry, Geneseo, and Mary Ellen and Jim Spooner, East Moline, son Ray Weideman Jr., Newton IA, grandchildren; Michael William Fry, John Curtis Fry, Christopher Gerald Fry, Amy Weideman and Kaleigh Joan Dilley, great grandchildren; Sara Michelle Fry and John Curtis Fry Jr., and siblings, Joan Gunnerson, Moline, Ruth Sutton, Carbon Cliff and Donald Weideman, Peoria. He was preceded in death by his wife, 3 sisters and a brother.

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