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Bettendorf Alderman Dies

City of Bettendorf

A member of the Bettendorf city council has died. Debe LaMar was 61 years old and had represented the third ward for ten years.

City officials say LaMar died Thursday after a battle with cancer. 

LaMar served under three different mayors, and served as Mayor Pro-tem for seven years. The splash pad in Lincoln Park was dedicated to her last summer.

Funeral arrangements are pending. 

A native of Detroit, Herb Trix began his radio career as a country-western disc jockey in Roswell, New Mexico (“KRSY, your superkicker in the Pecos Valley”), in 1978. After a stint at an oldies station in Topeka, Kansas (imagine getting paid to play “Louie Louie” and “Great Balls of Fire”), he wormed his way into news, first in Topeka, and then in Freeport Illinois.