Jean Carol Rauschenbach

Jean Carol Rauschenbach, 69, of East Moline, IL, passed away December 6, 2024, at Hope Creek Care Center, East Moline.

Memorial services will be held at 11 a.m. on Wednesday December 18, 2024, at Esterdahl Mortuary and Crematory, Ltd., Moline, Illinois. Inurnment will be at St. Bernard Cemetery, in Rockville, Connecticut. Memorials may be made to the National Federation of the Blind, and/or to Homewood Evangelical Free Church. 

Jean was born on June 2, 1955, in New London, CT, the daughter of Katherine E. (Shea) and Kenneth E. Rauschenbach. She was raised in Connecticut and moved to upstate New York to attend bible school. She taught as a kindergarten teacher in New York. Later, she moved to Chicago and worked for the IRS for 13 years. After that, she moved to Minneapolis to attend Adjustment to Blindness training. While there, she attended North Central University, where she received a BA in Elementary Education. Jean then moved to the Quad Cities when she was hired on at the Rock Island Arsenal, where she worked on closing contracts for the Department of Defense. She was the President of the Blackhawk Chapter of the National Federation of the Blind. 

She enjoyed listening to audio books, working on her computer, and playing video games on her phone. Jean had traveled the world and many of those trips were mission related. She had visited Africa, Jamaica, and Germany. She also took a trip to Ireland to find her family roots.

Survivors include her siblings, Gary Martin and Pam Faircloth, her cousins, Donna Boldt, Jean (Gregory) Gutzman, Leslie Bourque, Kim Cherpak; and many nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents.

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