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Harriette Smuleson Weindruch
Harriette Smuleson Weindruch
November 07, 1922 - April 25, 2012
Rock Island, Illinois

Funeral Service: 10:00 a.m. Friday April 27, 2012 at Congregation Beth Israel at the Tri-City Jewish Center, 2715 30th St., Rock Island, Ill.
Interment: Friday April 27, 2012 at Hebrew Cemetery, Rock Island, Ill.

Harriette Smuleson Weindruch, 89, of Rock Island, passed on Wednesday, Apr. 25, 2012 at her home.

Funeral services will be 10:00 Friday at the Congregation Beth Israel at the Tri City Jewish Center, Rock Island. Burial is at Hebrew Cemetery, Rock Island. Wheelan-Pressly Funeral Home, Rock Island is assisting the family. Memorials may be made to Congregation Beth Israel at the Tri City Jewish Center or to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.

Harriette Smuleson was born on Nov. 7, 1922 in Des Moines, Iowa, a daughter of Samuel and Sophie Poder Smuleson. She married Bernard F. Weindruch on Nov. 21, 1943 in Des Moines.

She attended the University of Iowa, Iowa City. While her husband was serving in the U.S. Army during WW II, Harriette worked at the post where he was stationed.

Harriette was a member of Congregation Beth Israel at the Tri City Jewish Center, Hadassah, the Sisterhood at the Center and B’nai B’rith Women. She was also a member of the Trinity Medical Center Auxiliary, Senior Board of the Visiting Nurse and Homemaker Association of Rock Island and life member of Sigma Delta Tau Sorority at the University of Iowa. Harriette served as a volunteer at the Tri City Jewish Center.

Survivors include her husband, Bernard; daughters and sons-in-law, Roberta and Ira Fertel, Merida, Mexico and Vicki and David Levin, Rock Island; grandchildren (and spouses), Frank Anan, San Francisco, Michelle (Dave) Kluz, Australia, Daniel Eirinberg (Yuki Kawabata), Chicago, Samuel Eirinberg, Chicago, Lorrie (Lee) Blumberg, Rock Island, and Michael Levin, Normal, Ill.; great-grandchildren, Zachary and Nathaniel Blumberg, Jacob and Alexander Levin, and Otis Kawabata; and several nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents; brother, Sidney Smuleson; and sisters, Mabel Pomerantz and Zelma Weindruch.

Online condolences may be left at www.wheelanpressly.com.



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She was a marvelous woman and I am sure she will be missed.
-- Jack & Jody Leiby

My deapest sympathy for your loss.
-- Dean Campbell

Our deep sympathies to Bernie and all the family.Sorry that I am out of town and can't attend services. Ted and Pat Grevas
-- theodore grevas md