QUINBY, Ted 1906-1943

QUINBY, KELLEY, ELLIS

Posted By: Marilyn O'Connor (email)
Date: 1/6/2011 at 15:46:58

Ted Quinby, 36,
Dies Suddenly
Of Heart Attack

Wife and Son Survive;
Funeral Thursday At
Methodist Church

The death of Ted Quinby, 36, at his home in LaCrosse, Wis., on Monday morning, came as a great shock to relatives and friends in Nora Springs.

A foreman of the sixth ordinance service command shop there, he had been at work all day Saturday, feeling his best. On Sunday, his brother-in-law and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Kelley of Oelwein, spent the day in the Quinby home at LaCrosse, and found him in the best of health and spirits. It was Sunday evening after their guests departed that he complained of indigestion. He slept fitfully and decided Monday morning that he would not go to work. A physician was called and he did not find his condition particularly alarming. Mr. Quinby went into the bedroom to lie down and his wife, leaving him for a brief period, returned to find him dead. The cause, according to the attending physician, was gas on the heart.

Funeral services will be held in the Methodist church here at 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon, with the pastor, the Rev. Robert Davies, in charge. Burial will be in Park cemetery.

Ted Quinby was born Aug. 28, 1906, at Hansell, Iowa the son of James H. and Hattie Quinby. He lived in Nora Springs most of his life, graduating from the local high school in 1923. he was married to Mable Kelley of Nora Springs on September 4, 1938.

He was employed as a mechanic in Charles City and Waterloo, and in 1935 went into government work, as camp mechanic of the CCC camp at Cresco. He was later sent to LaCrosse, Wisconsin, as an inspector of the central repair shop, which later became the sixth ordinance shop. Still in the same capacity, he was transferred to Springfield, Illinois, in April 1942, and later to Giard, Illinois. In January 1943, he was returned to LaCrosse, where he lived until his death.

He is survived by his wife, a son, James, who is a year and a half old; two sisters, Mrs. C. D. Ellis and Miss Carrie Quinby, both of Nora Springs; and two brothers, A. J. Quinby of Nora Springs and Roy Quinby of Moline, Illinois.

An infant daughter, Linda Lee, died in December, 1941.

The body was brought to Nora Springs Tuesday.

(June 1943)