QUINN, Francis "Bud"

QUINN, CONLEY, WEYDERT, HALEN, DUMAIS, COLEMAN

Posted By: Pat Ludeke (email)
Date: 6/13/2013 at 23:25:37

Francis “Bud” Quinn, 79, 105 N. German St., Ventura, died Sunday, Oct. 19,
2008 at the Mercy Medical Center of North Iowa, Mason City, Iowa.

A funeral service was held Thursday, Oct. 23, at St. Patrick’s Catholic
Church, Clear Lake, with the Rev. John R. Tilp officiating. Interment was held
at the Clear Lake Cemetery. Military Honors were provided by the Clear Lake
V.F.W. Family suggests memorials to the Francis Quinn Memorial Fund.

Bud was born Nov. 19, 1928, in Austin, Minn., the son of Curtis and Mary
(Conley) Quinn. He was raised on a farm west of Whittmore, Iowa where he
graduated from high school. He enlisted in the Navy in 1950 and served on a
submarine. When he was honorably discharged he worked with his father on the
farm. Bud married Jacqueline Weydert on Feb. 14, 1953 at St. Patrick’s Catholic
Church in Clear Lake. After they were married they moved to West Bend, Iowa and
farmed from 1953 to 1961. They then moved to the Pete Weydert farm in rural
Ventura where he continued to farm and also drove semi for Allied Mills. They
moved to Ventura in 1983.

Bud is survived by his wife, Jacqueline Quinn, Ventura; five children,
Christi Halen and her husband, Jim, Cedar City, Utah, Curtis Quinn, Cylinder,
Iowa, Carol Dumais and her husband, Tommy, Conrowe, Texas, Connie Coleman and
her husband, Paul, Clear Lake, and Clark Quinn and his wife, Kathy, Clear Lake;
three sisters, Nina Case, Tyler, Minn., Dorothy Mergen and her husband, Clem,
Estherville, Iowa and Marilyn Perkins and her husband, Bob, Britt, Iowa; 19
grandchildren, Shannon Kelley and her husband, Jim, Bill Carrington, Kati Glenn,
Andy Carrington and his wife, Selena, Dustin Quinn, Josh Quinn, Jessika Quinn,
Jeremy Quinn, Jake Quinn, Tracie Menuey, Bobbie Engebretson and her husband,
David, Kelly Campbell, Ceison Heit and her husband, Dustin, Spencer Coleman and
his wife, Erika, Breann Green and her husband, Ezra, Sheldon Coleman, Shea
Coleman and his wife, Ashley, Matt Frazier and Mike Quinn; and 18
great-grandchildren.

Bud was preceded in death by his parents, Mary and Curtis Quinn; and his
brothers, Lester, Joe and Bill Quinn.