Oliver Quaintance 1868-1954

QUAINTANCE, BRYAN, RATCLIFF

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Date: 5/6/2007 at 11:32:53

Funeral services for Oliver Quaintance were held Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Steffy Funeral Home. Rev. Giveford (Guilford) Street, minister of Honey Creek Friends Church at New Providence, was in charge.

Mrs. Dean Doonan sang "Jesus Savior Pilot Me" and "Abide With Me."

Casket bearers were Leroy Bryan, Earl Bryan, Rayford Bryn, Lewis Watson, Lyle Patterson and Alva Sharer.

Interment was in the Friends Cemetery at New Sharon.

Obituary

Oliver Hugh Quaintance, son of Ephron and Jane Ratcliff, was born at New Sharon on July 25, 1868, and passed away at Montezuma on January 25, 1954 at the age of 85 years and six months.

He was a birthright member of the Friends Church in New Sharon. A large part of his life was spent in farming near New Sharon and in the Sugar Creek community near Grinnell.

Later he moved to Lynnville where he lived for about 30 years.

Due to failing health in 1951 he came to live in the home of his sister and her husband Mr. and Mrs. Eli Bryan, of Montezuma, where he remained most of the time until three days before his death when he was taken for care in the Killian nursing home, where he passed away.

He was preceded in death by his father and mother and four brothers. He is survived by his sister, Mrs. Mattie Bryan, 14 nieces and nephews and numerous other relatives and friends.

Mr. Quaintance was a man of upright character, kindly and friendly, and will be greatly missed by those near to him.

Source: A scrapbook in the possession of Mrs. Keith Street