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- The Dispatch-Argus (Moline, IL)
June 3, 1998
Elizabeth "Bette" DeDecker, 74, rural Cambridge, died Tuesday, June 2, 1998, at Kewanee Hospital.
The former Elizabeth Cochran was born Feb. 21, 1924, in Geneseo, the daughter of Bert and Hazel Coats Cochran. She married Marvin E. DeDecker June 27, 1942, in Kewanee. He died Aug. 21, 1991.
She was educated in Kewanee and Geneseo and graduated from Geneseo High School with high honors in 1942. She and her husband farmed in Cambridge Township until retiring in 1990. She continued to live on the family farm until her death.
Mrs. DeDecker was a member of St. John Vianney Catholic Church, Cambridge, and the Altar and Rosary Society of the church where she was a past presient. She was a member of the Henry County Farm Bureau, the County Center Grange, Geneseo Art League and Kewanee Art League. She had been a past member of the Henry County and Illinois Pork Producers. She enjoyed wintering in Arizona and was an avid artist most of her life.
Survivors include her sons and daughters-in-law, Lynn and Imogene DeDecker, Ottumwa, Iowa, and Mark and Karen DeDecker, Cambridge; six grandchildren; and a sister, Ethyl Arnold, Rapid City.
Mrs. DeDecker was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, a sister, Lois Skovronski, and a brother, Robert Cochran.
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