- Date Of Birth: December 19, 1931
- Date Of Death: May 27, 2013
- State: Iowa
Inez (Malone) Quinn was born December 19, 1931 to Merrill and Marline Malone at her grandparents, Manny and Betty Clark at Smyrna, Iowa in Clarke County.
She started to school in Derby and 1942 she moved to Chariton and graduated from high school in 1950.
She married Bob Shore in 1951 and moved to Des Moines where she worked at Fawn Engineering for a while then Bankers Life.
She and Bob divorced in 1957 and in 1958 they went back together and went to Anchorage, Alaska.
She went to work at a large restaurant, the Hauphran which was demolished by the earthquake.
By this time she was married to a co-worker, James Arthur Quinn.
After the earthquake she went to work at the Post Office in Anchorage.
Her husband later died.
She stayed on at the Post Office until 1987.
At that time she was operated on for colon cancer and a team of doctors gave her one year to live.
Her family in Chariton asked her what she wanted to do.
I want a little house, not an apartment.
We all bought a little house at 627 North Main and filled it with furniture.
In September 1987 she came home and lived in this little house the rest of her life.
In 1990 she saw a Help Wanted sign in the Ben Franklin window and there she worked the rest of her life.
In 2010 she was operated on for cancer again and again she went back to work.
This time only 2 days a week.
She dearly loved Gary and Betty Pipping and all of their families.
In 2012 the Pippings sold the store to the Mark Felderman family.
She dearly loved their whole family also.
In 2013 Inez’s health changed again.
The work “chemo” was not a word in her vocabulary.
The Good Lord would take care of her.
She loved life and everyone around her.
She had no children of her own so she loved everyone else’s.
She died at Legacy Lodge on May 27, 2013 at the age of 81.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Merrill and Marline Malone and her husband, Arthur Quinn.
She is survived by two sisters, Twyla (Bud) Cromer of Chariton and Fern (Fred) Baze of Clarinda, and two brothers Dean (Maggie) Malone of Chariton and Max (Burnetta) Malone of Indianola and many nieces and nephews were all special to her.
Also the 23 years she worked at Ben Franklin she made many friends.
She will be greatly missed by all of her friends, co-workers, and all of their special families.
