Herbert C. Spahn

Herbert C. Spahn, 100, of Moline, Illinois, died Monday, September 10, 2018, in Clarissa C. Cook Hospice House, Bettendorf, Iowa.

Visitation is 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday in the Horizon Room at Trimble Funeral Home at Trimble Pointe, 701 12th Street, Moline. A Masonic funeral service will follow at 4 p.m. with Doric Lodge #319, AF & AM, Moline, presiding. Funeral services are 10:30 a.m. Monday at the funeral home. Burial is in Greenview Memorial Gardens, East Moline. Friends are invited to a funeral luncheon at CityView Celebrations at Trimble Pointe following the burial. Memorials may be made to Doric Lodge or Clarissa Cook Hospice.

Herbert Casper Spahn was born November 6, 1917, in Chicago, to Jacob and Elizabeth (Dietzel) Stahl, and raised by his mother and step-father, Albert Spahn. He married Nellie Johnson on December 31, 1938, in Moline. She died October 31, 1988. He served in the US Navy during WW II, and was a machinist at International Harvester East Moline Works for 37 years, retiring in 1978. Herb was active in the Masonic Fraternity, where he was a longtime member of Moline Lodge #1014, AF & AM, now Doric Lodge #319; Scottish Rite Bodies, Valley of Moline; Kaaba Shrine; Moline Chapter #258, Order of Eastern Star; and Zal Grotto. He belonged to American Legion Post #569 in Milan, and was passionate about vegetable gardening.

Herb is survived by children, Gary Spahn and his wife Sandra of Perkinston, Mississippi, Daniel Spahn and Marilee Spahn, both of Moline; grandchildren and spouses, Brian and Kim Spahn, Jonette and Clay Gilley, Luanne and Dan Wise, and Sonnet Busen Greene and Brady Greene; four great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandchild. He was preceded in death by his wife and three brothers, Richard, Ernest, and Victor Spahn; and a great-grandson.

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