| Dennis Begyn
Dennis Martin Begyn, 48, of Taylor Ridge, died Friday, May 24,
2002, following his final run at Cordova Speedway, with a final elapsed
time of 8.87 seconds at a speed of 150.3 mph in the quarter-mile.
Services will be 10 a.m. Tuesday at Wheelan-Pressly Funeral Home,
Milan. Burial will be in Illinois City Cemetery. Visitation will be 4 to
7 p.m. Monday at the funeral home. Memorials may be made to the family.
Dennis was born Nov. 25, 1953, in Rock Island, son of Daniel and
Dorothy Burns Begyn. He married Sandra Martin on March 24, 1972, in
Muscatine, Iowa.
He was a U.S. Army veteran, where he served with the Army Honor
Guard Detail at Arlington National Cemetery.
He worked for Civil Contractors, East Moline, where he was a
master mechanic. He also served as road commissioner for Andalusia Township.
He loved to race and was a member of IHRA and NHRA.
He is survived by his wife, Sandra, Taylor Ridge; sons, Dennis
Begyn Jr., Rock Island, and Jesse Begyn and his wife, Christine,
Andalusia; parents, Daniel and Dorothy Begyn; and brothers and sisters
and their spouses, Kathy and Ron Kerres Armstrong, Aledo, Dan and Nancy
Begyn, Rock Island, Pat and Kathy Begyn, Taylor Ridge, Carol and Bud
Schaffer, Aledo, Mike and Janet Begyn, Milan, Clarissa and Chris Stark,
Taylor Ridge, and Chris and Rhonda Begyn, Andalusia. Also surviving is
Ashley Miller, Aledo.
(Rock Island Argus, May 26, 2002) |
