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QUAINTANCE, Nellie Kathryn Parker Allen
St. Clair Courier, June 3, 1977, Page 4. Submitted by Marie Reynolds
Funeral services for Nellie Quaintance were held Friday, May 27 at 2:00 p.m. at the Gerster Baptist Church under the direction of the Goodrich Funeral Home. The Rev. Jack Keifer was the officiating minister and music was furnished by Donna Cruce, soloist with Patty Parker as accompanist. Casketbearers were Ross Parker, Alton Parker, C. F. Parker, Paul Edward Allen, Wendel Leiber and Steve Leiber. Burial was in the King’s Prairie Cemetery. Nellie Kathryn Quaintance, daughter of Charles R. and Lou Anna Parker, was born April 24, 1907 and died on May 28, 1977 at the home in Phoenix after a short illness. She was married to Wilbur Allen and after his death she was married to D. E. Quaintance. The couple had four children, Cecil Ross, Harley Ray, of Phoenix, Ariz., Shirley Matatta, Phoenix and Leroy of Las Vegas, Nev. She was a member of the Gerster Baptist Church for many years and later joined a Baptist church in Phoenix. Mrs. Quaintance was a native of the Gerster area. She and her late husband D. E. Quaintance operated a store and post office there. She is survived by her children, Dr. Cecil A. Quaintance, Harley Ray Quaintance and Mrs. Shirley Matatta, all of Phoenix and LeRoy Quaintance, of Las Vegas, Nev.; six brothers, Alton Parker, Hermitage, Harry and J. E. Parker, Canon City, Col, Floyd Parker, Fontana, Cal., C. F. Parker, Gerster and a sister, Mrs. Frances Rose of Springfield, MO., also nine grandchildren and three great grandchildren.

QUICK, Larry G.
Clinton Daily Democrat, November 1997
Larry G. Quick, 50, El Dorado Springs, died Thursday, November 13, 1997, at his home. He was born in Warrensburg on November 30, 1946, the son of Lester and Thelma Louise (Hensley) Quick. He worked in maintenance at Barrington Manufacturing in El Dorado Springs. He is survived by his wife, Mary Ann, of the home; two sons, Curtis Quick of Lamar and Gene Quick of Lowry City; 12 brothers, Harold Quick of Warrensburg, Ralph Quick of Sedalia, Basil Quick of Louisburg, Louisiana, Al Quick of El Dorado Springs, Galen Quick of El Dorado Springs, Denzil Quick and Rodney Quick of Green Ridge, Gary Quick of Hannibal, Randy Quick of Hughesville, Gerald Quick of Sedalia, Darrel Quick of Kansas City, and Wendal Quick of Hannibal; two sisters, Patricia Sutton of Green Ridge and Diane Crawford of El Dorado Springs, and five grandchildren. Funeral services will be Sunday, November 16, at the Sheldon Chapel in El Dorado Springs with burial in Benton Green Cemetery.

QUICK, Lester Francis
Lester Francis Quick 76, Weaubleau, died Sunday, March 14, 1999, in Citizens Memorial Hospital. The son of Charles Ellsworth and Donia Cecil Quick, he was born Nov. 10, 1922, at Monegaw Springs. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II. A resident of Weaubleau for the past nine years, he had formerly lived in Humansville for 21 years. He was a retired truck driver, having driven for Crawford Oil Company in Humansville for 25 years. He was a member of the Antioch Christian Church at Pittsburg. He was preceded in death by his parents; two brothers, Henry Quick and Lindsay Quick; two sisters, Julie Floyd and Pearl Root; and a great-granddaughter, Miranda Baker. Survivors include his wife, Toni, of the home; a daughter, Patsy E. Sanderson, Lebanon; a brother, Homer Quick, Weaubleau; four sisters, Mabel Bastion of Pittsburg, Mary Cline, Opal Welch and Ruby Lightle, all of Weaubleau; three granddaughters, Beth Huskey and Macy Harmon, both of Hermitage, and Dustina Fitzpatrick, Moberly; and 10 great-grandchildren. Cremation was under the direction of Murray Funeral Home, Humansville. Burial will be at a later date in Antioch Cemetery at Pittsburg.