Sunday's Obituary: Laura Bryan Keith

The obituary below was found in the Stephenville Tribune. Laura L. Bryan Keith was my grandfather's (Redic Bryan) youngest sister. Laura died from complications of Typhoid Fever. The above funeral notice was found in the Bible that once belonged to Terrell and Harriet Bryan, my great-grandparents. 

Mrs. Harve Keith died very suddenly Saturday at her home in Dublin after a very short illness. No one was expecting her illness to result seriously and her death came as a great shock to her friends and relatives in Stephenville and Dublin.  

She had always enjoyed good health and no one ever dreamed that the death angel would issue a summon for her to lay aside earthly cares and return to Him who made life possible. She was of a very amiable disposition; and had won quite  a coterie of friends, and will be sadly missed from her accustomed place among them.  

She was but little over 30 years old and leaves a husband and two small daughters. The remains were buried at the West End in this city Sunday, the Rev. J. P. Gilliam conducting the services. His reference to the aged father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Terrell Bryan, the husband, and two little motherless girls was exceedingly affecting, and brought tears to almost everyone who stood near the sound of his voice. 

Her untimely death not only brings dissolution to a once happy home, and robs two little girls of a mother’s watchful care and devotion, but also falls heavily upon the father and mother as she seemed to be their idolized child.

                  From the Stephenville Tribune –back page – July 24, 1908

In the same issue – Reddick Bryan of Big Springs came in Monday. He received the telegram too late to get here in time to attend the funeral of his sister, Mrs. Harve Keith. He spent a few days here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Terrell Bryan.

Diana

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Sunday's Obituary: Hairston "Buster" Albritton Bryan

Hairston "Buster" Albritton Bryan died on September 15, 1940.  My father, Whit Criswell Bryan, was his younger brother. Buster was the son of Redic E. Bryan and Myrtie Hairston Bryan, both who died in the 1920s.  

This obituary appears to have been written by a paper in Seymour, Texas and it is assumed that this paper was The Baylor County Banner. Several years ago, my father pointed out the inaccuracies in this obituary.  Buster's date of birth was January 24, 1906. His married sister was Willa Mae Dudley, not Armstrong. Buster graduated from Seymour High School in 1923, not 1924 and he had a step-son, Randall Dorman, not a step-daughter. 

Diana

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Sunday's Obituary: Willa Mae Bryan Dudley

Willa Mae Dudley

Willa Mae Bryan Dudley was the fourth child of Redic E. Bryan and Myrtie Hairston.  She was born, Willie May Bryan, in 1910 in Seymour, Baylor County, Texas.  She was married to James Dudley and had one child, Jacqueline. Willa Mae is buried with her sisters, DeRay and Marie, in the Westlawn Memorial Park Cemetery. 

Willa Mae Dudley

Willa Mae Dudley, 81, Borger, died at 5:45 a.m. Saturday, May 25, 1991 in Golden Plains Community Hospital.

Services are pending with Minton-Chatwell Funeral Directors of Borger.

A native of Seymour, she had been a Borger resident since 1927. She was a former manager for ladies' wear at Dunlap's, and formerly employed at Cartwright's and KC Store.

She was a member of First Baptist Church, and Altrusa Club.

Survivors include a daughter, Jackie Skinner of Denver, Colo.; a brother, Whit Bryan of Virginia Beach, Va; a grandson, Chip Skinner of San Francisco, Calif.; a granddaughter, Kelli Vlahos of San Francisco, Calif.; a great-granddaughter, Demetria Vlahos.

                                                                Borger News Herald - May 26, 1991

Willa Mae Dudley

Graveside services for Willa Mae Dudley, 81, Borger, will be at 1 p.m. Tuesday at Westlawn Memorial Park Cemetery with the Rev. William Houghton, rector of St. Peter's Episcopal Church, officiating.

Burial will be by Minton-Chatwell Funeral Directors of Borger.

Mrs. Dudley died at 5:45 a.m. Saturday, May 25, 1991 in Golden Plains Community Hospital.

A native of Seymour, she had been a Borger resident since 1927. She was a former manager for ladies' wear at Dunlap's, and formerly employed at Cartwright's and KC Store.

She was a member of First Baptist Church, and Altrusa Club.

Survivors include a daughter, Jackie Skinner of Denver, Colo.; a brother, Whit Bryan of Virginia Beach, Va.; a grandson, Chip Skinner of San Francisco, Calif.; a granddaughter, Kelli Vlahos of San Francisco, Calif.; a great-granddaughter, Demetria Vlahos.

                                                       Borger News Herald - May 29, 1991

Diana

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Sunday's Obituary: Myrtie Marie Bryan

Myrtie Marie Bryan, my father's sister

Myrtie Marie Bryan was the first child of Myrtie Hairston and Redic Bryan.  She was born in 1901, in Erath County, Texas, but spent most of her childhood in Seymour, Texas.  She graduated from Seymour High School in 1921 and moved to Borger, Texas after the death of her parents, where she managed the household duties for her siblings. 

Marie Bryan . . . . senior citizen

Funeral services are pending for Marie Bryan, 85, who died Saturday at Magic Plans Nursing Home, Borger, where she resided.  

Surviors include two sisters, Dee Ray {DeRay} Bryan of Borger and Willa Mae Dudley of Borger; one brother, Wit Bryan {Whit Bryan} of Virginia Beach, Va., and nieces and nephews. 

Arrangements are by Minton/Chatwell Funeral Directors. 

                                                      Borger News Herald, September 14, 1986  

Marie Bryan

   

Borger - Marie Bryan, 85, died Saturday. 

Graveside services for Marie Bryan will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday in Westlawn Memorial Park Cemetery with Rev. Jerry Evans, Associate Pastor of First Baptist Church, officiating. Arrangements are by Minton/Chadwell, Funeral Directors. 

Miss Bryan, born in Erath County, had lived in Borger since 1927.  She was a member of First Baptist Church.  

Survivors include two sisters, DeRay Bryan and Willa Mae Dudley, both of Borger and a brother, Whit Bryan of Virginia Beach, Virginia. 

Source and date unknown - clipping found in genealogical notes that belonged to Whit Criswell Bryan     

Diana

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Sunday's Obituary: Monte DeRay Bryan

Monte DeRay "DeeDee" Bryan was my father's sister. She was born in Erath County, Texas, but raised in Seymour, where she graduated in 1920 from Seymour High School. DeRay taught school in Borger, Texas at the time of her father's death in 1929 and at age 25 years old became  the primary wage-earner for the family. She supported her older sister, Marie, and took on parenting responsibilities for my father, age 8 and her younger sister, Willa Mae, age 15. 

Monte DeRay Bryan . . . pioneer Borgan

Monte DeRay Bryan, 83, of Magic Star Nursing Home in Borger, died at 3 a.m. Sunday in the home. 

A retired medical secretary for Dr. Hamra, she was a native of Stephenville, Texas, and a Borger resident since 1926.

She was a member of the First Baptist Church, Duplicate Bridge Club, and one of the first school teachers in Borger.

She is survived by one sister, Willa Mae Dudley of Borger; one brother Whit Bryan of Virginia Beach, Va.; one niece, Jacquelyn Skinner of Denver, Colo.

Services are pending with Minton/Chatwell Funeral Directors.

                                                          Borger News Herald, August 17, 1987

Graveside services for Monte DeRay Bryan, 83, of Magic Plains Nursing Home in Borger, will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday with Rector William Houghton, pastor of St. Peter's Episcopal Church officiating.

Burial will be under the direction of Minton/Chatwell Funeral Directors.

Survivors include one sister, one brother, one niece.

                                               Borger News Herald, August 18, 1987

From the card at DeRay's funeral 

Diana

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Sunday's Obituary: Celia Agnes Quinn Houlihan

Signature found on the Index to Petitions for Naturalizations filed in NYC in 1928

Cecelia Houlihan

Funeral services for Cecelia Houlihan, 85, 2307 W. Jefferson St., were conducted Tuesday by the Rev. Leroy Kinnamon.  Interment will be in New York Veterans National Cemetery at Pinelawn, N.Y.  Murray Funeral Home, Kokomo Chapel was in charge of local arrangements. 

Mrs. Houlihan died at 11:36 a.m. Monday, Feb. 6, 1984, in St. Joseph Memorial Hospital. She was born in County Galway, Ireland, April 23, 1898, a daughter of Bridgett (Branley) Quinn.

In 1935 she married Richard Houlihan who died Oct. 9, 1962.  She had worked for New York Central Railroad as a clerical person.

Surviving is a sister, Margaret Dawson of New York City.  Three brothers and two sisters preceded her in death. 

                   KoKomo Tribune, Wednesday, February 8, 1984

There are many inaccuracies in this obituary including the spelling of her name. Celia did not have children and died after most close family members which may account for the errors. In all previously found documents, her name is spelled Celia, not Cecelia. Church records indicate that Celia Quinn was born on April 13, 1898; the daughter of William Quinn and Bridget Brannelly. She came to the United States in 1920 and married Richard J. Houlihan on September 3, 1927.  According to death records, Celia died on February 6, 1984. Her cemetery stone has an incorrect date of  February 7. She is buried in Long Island National Cemetery which is adjacent to the Pinelawn Cemetery in Farmingdale, New York.  

More about Celia Quinn Houlihan can be found on my web pages. 

Bride, Celia Quinn with groom, Richard Houlihan.  Also pictured are
Susan Murray Quinn, sister-in-law of the bride and Harold Edward Dawson, brother-in-law of the bride. Celia appears to be wearing the same dress that Susan Murray Quinn wore in 1926.

Diana

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Sunday's Obituary: John R. Hammett

John R. Hammett

I found photocopies of these obituaries for John R. Hammett, last month, when looking at genealogy files left to the Denver Public Library by my first cousin Jackie.

John R. Hammett was the son of Dorothy "Dollie" Bryan Hammett and Robert E. Hammett.  Dorothy was the daughter of Reddick and Elizabeth Regan Bryan.   John married Alice "Allie" Amanda Bryan, daughter Terrell and Harriet Albritton Bryan. Allie, my grandfather's sister, was John R. Hammett's first cousin. 

Former Post Man Dies in Portales, N. M.

News has been received here of the passing   of J. R. Hammett in New Mexico on November 2, at 2:30 o’clock.

Mr. Hammett was a former citizen of this county, having lived here for 15 years before moving to New Mexico. Funeral services were conducted by Rev. Joe F. Grizzle former pastor of the Baptist church here, but now pastor in Portales.

Mr. Hammett is survived by his wife and nine children, three children having preceded him in death.  The children are Mrs. H. N. Andresees of Electra; Mrs. J. R. Mayo fo Southland; Mrs. L. E. Simons, Santa Fe; N. M.;  Mrs. J. D. King, Post; R. S. Hammett, Seamore; P. D. Hammett, Austin; H. A. Hammett, Portales;  Cecil Hammett, Amarillo and Monte Hammett of this city.  All of the children except R. T. Hammett were with their father at the time of his death.

Mr. Hammett had been in ill health for about 4 years but was seriously ill for only five days. 

Internment was made in the Portales Cemetery.

 Hammett Funeral Services Saturday

Funeral services for John R. Hammett, who died early this morning, will be held tomorrow afternoon at the First Methodist Church with Rev. Joe F. Grizzle and the Rev. C. Frank York officiating. Mr. Hammett had been ill for the past four years. He came to Portales in May, 1935, from Post, Tex., where he had lived for 13 years.

Mr. Hammett was born in Compti {Campti}. La., in 1967 {1867}. He was married to Miss Allie A. Bryan in 1885. To this union nine children were born.

Those present at the time of death were Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Hammett, Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Simons and two children, Geneva Hudnall of Santa Fe, Mr. and Mrs. P. D. Hammett of Austin, Texas; Mr. and Mrs. Monts {Monte} Hammett of Post, Texas;  Mrs. Lucy King and baby of Post; Mrs. John Mayo and son of Southland, Texas; Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Hammett of Amarillo; Mr. and Mrs. Foster Mayo of Southland, all relatives of Mr. Hammett.  Price Crume and daughter, Verdine, of Kenna, and Carl Reins of Post, Texas, long-time friends, were also present. 

Pallbearers will be W. B. Smith, Ben Bryant, Charile Masters, Price Crume, Murray South, and John South. 

Diana

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Sunday's Obituary: Grandma Scott Dies

I am so glad that we now use women's names in obituaries and other documents.  I have seen so many obituaries and other articles calling older women "Grandma" or referring to married women by their husband's name; e.g., Mrs. R. E. Bryan or Mrs. Redic E. Bryan.  

Mary Ann Selman Scott was the wife of Calvin C. Scott and a descendant of Thomas Selman and Jemimah Greenlease. She was a cousin to my great-grandmother, Lodema Criswell Hairston. Lodema’s grandmother was Nancy Selman, also a descendant of Thomas Selman and Jemimah Greenlease

Grandma Scott Dies

Sunday morning, May 8 at 4 o’clock Grandma M. A. Scott breathed her last.  She had been sick for a long time with kidney trouble and for several months had been gradually growing worse.  Anticipating the end, her children had all been here to visit her and all but one were present when she died.  The funeral took place at the residence on Sunday afternoon at 4 o’clock. Her pastor, Rev. O. E. Clark, conducted the services. A long procession of sorrowing relatives and friends followed the remains to the cemetery. 

          Grandma Scott died at the advanced age of 80 years and was the last one of nine children. She moved to Baylor County in 1879, being one of the first settlers, and lived a few years at Round Timber, after which she moved to Seymour.  During her long residence here, she has won the love and esteem of all those who have known her.  She had become a familiar figure in the town and her presence will be sadly missed.  For sixty years Mrs. Scott has been a faithful member of the Baptist church.  Her life has been an exemplary one and she could lie down in death without fear or trembling.

          Deceased leaves six children:  Ben Scott and Mrs. J. S. Foster of this place, J. G. Scott of Tahoka, Holly Scott of Roosevelt, Okla., Mrs. Reeder of Knox City, and Mrs. N. A. Green of Estelline.  People of Seymour join those in sorrow for the death of this good woman.  We have this consolation, though, that she had more than lived out her period of years and so lived that her memory will be revered. 

                        From the May 13, 1910 issue of the Baylor County Banner

                        in Baylor County, Texas

Diana

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Sunday’s Obituary: Reddick Bryan

My father, Whit C. Bryan, next to Reddick Bryan's grave at the
Bryan Cemetery in Bienville Parish, Louisiana - 1981

Reddick Bryan, my great-great-grandfather, must have liked adventure and the unknown. He left his home in North Carolina to settle in the frontier in Georgia and later to settle in newly owned federal lands in Louisiana. Both times, he gave up his home where he had family and established churches, schools and community. In Louisiana, Reddick was a slave owner and had a plantation where he grew cotton and lived in a two room dogtrot log cabin.  When Reddick died, at age 71 on January 12, 1864, two of his sons were away, fighting for the Confederate Army. His estate, valued at $27,500, included Confederate money and numerous slaves. 

According to the obituary, Reddick was a member of the Methodist Church for more than 40 years. This leads me to believe that he became affiliated with the Methodist Church about the time that he married Elizabeth Regan in 1821. Information about Reddick’s family and other genealogical or historical information is not found in this obituary. The newspaper and author are unknown.

Reddick Bryan, along with other family members, is buried in the Bryan Cemetery which is south of Ringgold on Highway 7 in Bienville Parish, Louisiana.

OBITUARY

Died at his residence, on the 12^th ult, near Ringgold, Bienville Parish, La., Mr. Reddick Bryan age seventy {paper torn and not ledgible}. It is painful indeed to record the death on one whom we have known so long and who was bound to us by the strongest ties of friendship’s affection- painful to know that one has gone who has been with us so long. By this community, he will be sadly missed and the announcement of his death will send an anguish to the hearts of all who knew him.  To his Christian Friends and Brethren, a light has gone out that will never on earth glow again, a pillar is broken and crushed that will never be replaced.  But we should be resigned to know and consider that Death is an instructive mentor as well as a mournful messenger; that the grave is the common lot of all, the great leveler of all distinctions.  But at the same time we are taught, in one sense the good and great can never die for the memory of their virtues and bright example will live through all coming time into an immortality that blooms beyond the grave.  The consolation of this thought should calm our sorrows and cause us to exclaim, in the language of a poet,

“Why weep ye, then, for him who having run

The bounds of man’s appointed years at last,

Life’s blessing all enjoyed, life’s labors done,

Serenely to his final rest has passed?”

The subject of this notice has long enjoyed the blessings of religion.  For more than forty years he has been a strict and useful member of the Methodist church.  Possessing all the attributes of a Christian Man, he was a kind and affectionate husband, an indulgent parent; as {illedgible} his servants displayed their attachment to him in tears of anguish over his grave.  For several months his health was bad, and he often spoke of death, but calmly, as if he would be ready to obey the summons when it pleased God to call him.  Let this thought comfort her, the partner of his bosom, whose heart is now crushed and bleeding.  Let her feel that it is good in the sight of God for this affliction to come on her, for by the power of Christ’s resurrection we joyfully anticipate the prospect of seeing that broken staff erect and that beautiful rod clothed with celestial grace and blossoming in undying life in the paradise of God.

Ringgold, La.

A. P. J.

Copies of this obituary and transcriptions were sent to me by two Bryan/Regan descendants. Another transcription was found in The Wimberly Family History compiled by Vera Meek Wimberly in 1979. Mrs. Wimberly wrote that she found the original obituary in the scrapbook of Josie Bryan Cook, a granddaughter of Reddick Bryan. All three transcriptions differed. This is my transcription of the copy of the clipping sent to me by E. Regan Pruitt.  

Diana

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Sunday's Obituary: Harriet Albritton Bryan

Harriet Albritton Bryan

Harriet Albritton Bryan died on February 9, 1909.  She was my great-grandmother. She was born on August 15, 1836 in Twiggs County, Georgia to Peter and Hollen Albritton. Hollen's maiden name has not been determined.  She and Terrell were married on Febrary 20, 1855 in Bienville Parish. 

This obituary and the following article,  were published in the Stephenville Tribune in February 1909. The exact date of the following issue was not obtained. The copy of this obituary was obtained from the Dick Smith Library at Tarleton State University in Stephenville, Texas

Stephenville Tribune

Feb 1909

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About 12 o'clock Tuesday while Mrs. Terrell Bryant was preparing dinner and while opening a can of corn, she was seized with a pain in the back of her neck and called to her husband.  A neighbor was called  in a physician sent for.  He administered to her wants and left.  The good woman grew worse and the doctor was again sent for.  She died at one o'clock.  Mrs. Bryant has long been a resident of Stephenville and was endowed with an unusually kind disposition and loving heart, there being few better women than she in this old world.  She was a true type of old southern womanhood, and possessed many fine traits of the mind and heart.  In her simple life and unostentatious way see exemplified the true Christian character.  Owing to the remoteness of some of the children of deceased the funeral did not take place until Wednesday. Among those who came in Tuesday were Reddick Bryan and wife of Big Springs, Mrs. J. R. Hammett of Seymore {Seymour}, Mrs. Tom Wylie of Bronte, Mrs. Tom Latta and Milton Wylie of Fort Worth, J. E. Biggs of Denton, and J. D. Biggs and family of Morgan Mill.

Stephenville Tribune
19 Feb 1909
(no title)
When the clouds of affliction hang heavily over a Stephenville home it is then that the good citizens and neighbors lay down their own burdens and minister gently to those in dire distress. This was exemplified most forcibly when our wife and mother, Mrs. Terrell Bryan, was stricken down, and passed away, and each of us desire to thank the many dear friends who rendered assistance at a time when we were heartbroken over the sudden termination of a life we held in such reverence. Respectfully, Terrell Bryan, Reddick Bryan, Mr. and Mrs. J.D. Biggs, J.R. Hammett, Mrs. Dollie Wylie, Harve Keith, Lon Latta and family.

Diana

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Sunday's Obituary: Honoring Those Who Served

 Whit C. Bryan

     Whit Criswell Bryan of the 4800 block of Frostburg Lane died August 22, 2001 in a Norfolk hospital.  Mr. Bryan was the husband of Elizabeth “Betty” M. Bryan and the son of the late Redic Bryan and Myrtie Hairston Bryan.  Born in Seymour, TX on December 21, 1920, he lived in Borger, TX before joining the U.S. Navy in 1940.  A Chief Petty Officer (HMC), he was a veteran of three wars and a Pearl Harbor survivor. In 1967 he served with the 3rd Marine Division in Vietnam.  He retired from the Navy in 1969 and worked twelve years as a Unit Coordinator for Norfolk General Hospital. After retiring from the hospital he delivered flowers for Farm Fresh stores.

     Mr. Bryan was a member of the Fleet Reserve Association Branch #99.  He faithfully attended Haygood United Methodist Church and was a member of the JOY Sunday School Class and the United Methodist Men. 

     Besides his wife, he is survived by his son, Richard T. Bryan of Norfolk; his three daughters, Diana B. Quinn and her husband William J. Quinn of Virginia Beach, Carol Trujillo of Santa Clara, CA, and Martha Campbell and her husband Fred Campbell of Santa Rosa, CA; eight grandchildren, Paul L. Rigg of Winter Park, FL, Jason A. Bryan of Norfolk, Emily M. Quinn and William J. Quinn of Virginia Beach, Donna Medeiros of San Jose, CA, Steven Medeiros of Sunnyvale, CA, Jason Trujillo of Spring Hill, FL, and Nicholas Trujillo of Ft. Leonardwood, MO; five great-grandchildren and a niece Jacqueline Skinner of Denver, CO.  He was preceded in death by his three sisters, Marie Bryan, DeRay Bryan, and Willa Mae Dudley, and his brother, Hairston A. Bryan.

     A funeral service will be held Monday at 1 p.m. at Haygood United Methodist Church, 4713 Haygood Road, Virginia Beach by Dr. Donald H. Traylor.  Burial will follow at Woodlawn Memorial Gardens.  Family will receive friends from 7 to 9 p.m. on Sunday at Holloman-Brown Funeral Home, Bayside Chapel. Memorials may be made to Haygood United Methodist Church.

In Rome, early 1960s. 

Camp Lejeune, NC 1966

Vietnam 1967

At Retirement 1969

A Pearl Harbor Survivor

For more information

Diana

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Sunday's Obituary: Frances Giddens Harper

Mission Memorial Park, San Antonio, Texas - Picture taken August 2011

Harper – Died Sunday, October 7, at the home, 410 Mary St., Mrs. Frankie Harper, aged 66 years beloved wife of Warren J. Harper; mother of Hugh E., W. V., and Chas.T. Harper, and Mrs. Lora E. Earney. Funeral services will be held at Riebe Undertaking Co. chapel this (Monday) afternoon, 4 o’clock, by Rev. Baxter D. Greer. Interment in Mission Burial Park.

                                           San Antonio Express – October 9, 1934

Frances "Frankie" Giddens Harper, born in Sampson County, NC, was the daughter of George L. Giddens and his first wife, Luellen Bradshaw. The Harper family left their home in Duplin County, NC between 1900 and 1910 to move to Christine, Texas.  After 1910, Frankie's father, George L. Giddens, left N.C. to live with his daughter's family in Texas. George died in 1914 and the family later settled in San Antonio. 

Diana

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Sunday's Obituary: Honoring Mothers

My beautiful mother-in-law, Doris Quinn, passed away earlier this year. Below is her obituary and some of her wonderful photographs.

Doris Mary Quinn - 1979

Doris M. Quinn

NEWPORT NEWS - Doris Mary Quinn, 82, died Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012, at her home. 

Doris was the wife of the late Lt. Col. U.S. Army (Ret.) William Joseph Quinn Sr., and the daughter of the late Charles Staubach and Helen Driscoll Staubach. Born in New York City July 21, 1929, she graduated from St. Catherine of Genoa School and The Assisium and attended Hunter College, all in New York City. She was a member of the American Legion Auxiliary Post 368.

She is survived by her children, Terry Quinn and her husband, Joseph Chomas, of Newport News, William J. Quinn and his wife, Diana, of Virginia Beach, Deborah Witt and her husband, Alan, of Newport News, Maureen Parker and her husband, Joseph, of Richmond, and Brian Quinn of Newport News; and eight grandchildren.

The family would like to thank Riverside Adult Daycare and Riverside Hospice for their compassion and care throughout her illness. A celebration of life will be conducted at 11 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 25, at Peninsula Funeral Home officiated by Father Kenneth Wood. A reception will be held following the service at the home of Deborah and Alan Witt. Burial will be performed in Arlington National Cemetery at a later date.

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made in Doris Quinn's honor to the Alzheimer's Association, 6350 Center Drive #102, Norfolk, VA 23502.

Peninsula Funeral Home in charge of arrangements. 

Early 1930s

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About 1992

Diana

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