Mollie J. Hershman

March 15, 1929 - December 14, 2011 Rock Island, Illinois

Mollie Hershman, 82, formerly of Rock Island, Illinois, died Wednesday, December 14, 2011, in Hillcrest Home, Geneseo, Illinois.

Memorial services will be held at a later date. Memorials may be made to Hillcrest Home. Trimble Funeral and Cremation Center, Moline, is entrusted with arrangements.

Mollie Jean Geith was born March 15, 1929, in Magnolia, Iowa, the daughter of Ralph and Katherine (Jarman) Geith. She married Clark Frederick Hershman on July 27, 1949, in Papillion, Nebraska. He died April 24, 2011.

She enjoyed sewing, reading, and cooking. She could write backwards, and made net balls for her family and friends for many years. She was a wonderful mother and homemaker.

Mollie is survived by four children. Steve Hershman and his partner Diana Sears of Andover, Illinois, Kathy Gannon of Overland Park, Kansas, Scott Hershman and his wife Teresa of Rock Island, and Kristin Fornwalt and her husband Brent of Wildwood, Missouri; a daughter-in-law, Karen Hershman of Peoria, Illinois; nine grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; and a brother, Dick Geith of Homestead, Florida. She was preceded in death by her husband and a son, Richard Hershman.

Mollie’s family invites friends to share stories and condolences and light a candle in her memory at www.TrimbleFuneralHomes.com.