Funeral services are 11:30 a.m. Saturday at the Wheelan-Pressly Funeral Home, 201 E. 4th Ave., Milan. Burial is at the Andalusia Cemetery. Visitation is 10:30 a.m. until service time Saturday at the funeral home. Memorials may be made to Alzheimer’s Association.

Mr. O’Donnell was born on Nov. 10, 1931 in Chicago. He married Jeannette T. Lesniak.

John graduated from Loyola Academy, Chicago and received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Idaho. He had owned O’Donnell Steel Sales, Inc., Andalusia, which he started in 1986. John began his career in the steel industry in 1951. He was employed for a number of years as a sales representative for the three largest warehouses in the United States.

He was an avid sports person his entire life. John attended the University of Idaho on a football scholarship, where he participated in most sports. He weight lifted, speed skated, and played baseball, basketball, boxed and snow skied. John also enjoyed fishing, flower and vegetable gardening, boating and their pool; but most of all loved his family.

Survivors include his wife, Jeannette, East Moline; daughters, Johnna Clark, Davenport and Deborah Randall, Kewanee; son and daughter-in-law, Michael and Julie O’Donnell, Milan; eight grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; and a sister, Barbara. He was preceded in death by his parents and brother, Terrance.

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