Obituary

  Funeral services for Nellie Rose Greer, 74, of Aledo, will be 2 p.m. Thursday at Trimble Funeral Home, Aledo. Visitation will be 3:30 to 7 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home. Burial will be in Aledo Cemetery. Memorials may be made to the Mercer County Food Pantry or Mercer County Family Crisis Center (for Domestic Violence).
  Nellie Rose died on Saturday, Nov. 4, 2000, at Mercer County Hospital, Aledo.
  Nellie Rose was born Dec. 3, 1925, in Mercer Township, Mercer County, Ill., to Henry G. and Marguerite (Child) Bridger. She married Ernest Maynard Greer on Aug. 22, 1945, in Springfield, Ill. He preceded her in death on April 23, 1990.
  Nellie Rose attended Matherville High School and graduated from Viola High School and the Broadview Academy in Lafox, Illinois. She attended Emmanuel Missionary College, now Andrews University in Berrien Springs, Mich. Nellie Rose graduated from Black Hawk College.
  Nellie Rose and her husband owned and operated the former Merchants Hotel from 1964 to 1975. She also taught Seventh-day Adventist Church School in Alton, Aledo and Moline. She was also a published writer, publishing a collection of her articles.
  Nellie Rose was a very active member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, as a deaconess, board member, adult superintendent and teacher. She served on the board for the Mercer County Food Pantry and was on the founding board of directors for the Coalition for Domestic Violence, which is now the Mercer County Family Crisis Center. Nellie Rose always did for others before herself, including delivering food and cheer baskets for church and driving people to appointments. She also was a dedicated visitor to Lynncrest Manor, Mercer County Home and Mercer County Hospital.
  Nellie Rose was a member of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, Adventist Amateur Radio Network, American Radio Relay League, Maranatha Church Building Program, AARP and a former member of the Adventist Self-supporting Institutions. She was an amatuer radio operator with her handle of ``China Doll.'' She also enjoyed traveling in all 50 states and was a talented seamstress who did beautiful work.
  Nellie Rose is survived by one son, Warren C. Greer, Aledo; two daughters and sons-in-law, Ellen and Ken Wherry, Memphis, Tenn., and Karen and Charles Clough, Olathe, Kan.; three granddaughters, Jennifer Greer, Lawrence, Kan., Jessica and Anita Greer, Lincoln, Neb.; one brother and four sisters and their spouses; Thomas H. and Eileen Bridger, Hoffman Estates, Ill., Carol and Larry Kurtz, Mesa, Ariz., Iris and Richard Kruger, Toronto, Canada, Marguerite "Bobbie" Scott, Seward, Neb., and Verna Lee and Richard Doake of Round Lake, Ill.; and a special friend, John Anderson, Aledo.
  Nellie Rose was preceded in death by her father; mother on Oct. 21, 2000, husband; and brother-in-law, Pat Scott.
(Rock Island Argus, November 7, 2000)