Robert Quentin, of Daisetta, passed away in a Beaumont hospital.
Quentin was born, the fifth of five children to Thomas Alonzo and Martha Elizabeth Officer Farris. His brothers were Edmund Burke and John Byron; his sisters were Opal and Alice Tom.
When Quentin was about a year old, his parents moved to Chambers County, Texas. His father Lon tried rice farming for three years, and then moved his family to Daisetta where he started the Farris Truck Line. Quentin went through school at Daisetta. He helped Burke in his grocery store and John in his filling station. He recalled that as a boy, he picked a tremendous amount of strawberries which his parents cultivated.
Quentin was an early member of the Daisetta Methodist Church. He joined the church in March of 1929. Quentin graduated from Hull-Daisetta High School in 1936. The next day he began driving a truck to Houston for his father, until he went into the Air Force in 1942. At the end of his three and a half years service , he returned to Daisetta and took over his fathers truck line. On December 5, 1948, friends arranged a date in Houston with Kathleen Ruth Kelling. Kathleen was working at Herman Hospital in Houston, having recently completed her training there in the Herman Hospital School of Nursing. Quentin and Kathleen were married three weeks later on December 25, 1948. They spent their entire married life together in Daisetta, until Kathleen passed away on November 13, 2004.
Kathleen and Quentin had five children; Bill, Ann, Mark, Nancy, and Tom. Nancy died in 1969. Quentin continued to operate the Farris Truck Line and also Farris Oil Field Hauling for fifty years. He was a member of the Methodist Church, Scottish Rite, Arabia Temple Shrine, Hull Masonic Lodge, and the Daisetta Lions Club.
Survivors are children, Bill, Ann Guedry, Mark and Tom; twelve grandchildren, Sarah Guedry, Emily, Matthew, Bill, Tom, JoAnna, Jack, Steve, Andy, Dan, Margaret, and Penelope Farris; nephew, Johnny Ager, nieces Martha Ager Goodwin, Janell Farris Johnson, and Nan Ray Farris Lush; sister-in-law Margaret Farris. Pallbearers are Bill, Mark, Tom, Carol, Terry and Bernadette Farris.
Quentin was born, the fifth of five children to Thomas Alonzo and Martha Elizabeth Officer Farris. His brothers were Edmund Burke and John Byron; his sisters were Opal and Alice Tom.
When Quentin was about a year old, his parents moved to Chambers County, Texas. His father Lon tried rice farming for three years, and then moved his family to Daisetta where he started the Farris Truck Line. Quentin went through school at Daisetta. He helped Burke in his grocery store and John in his filling station. He recalled that as a boy, he picked a tremendous amount of strawberries which his parents cultivated.
Quentin was an early member of the Daisetta Methodist Church. He joined the church in March of 1929. Quentin graduated from Hull-Daisetta High School in 1936. The next day he began driving a truck to Houston for his father, until he went into the Air Force in 1942. At the end of his three and a half years service , he returned to Daisetta and took over his fathers truck line. On December 5, 1948, friends arranged a date in Houston with Kathleen Ruth Kelling. Kathleen was working at Herman Hospital in Houston, having recently completed her training there in the Herman Hospital School of Nursing. Quentin and Kathleen were married three weeks later on December 25, 1948. They spent their entire married life together in Daisetta, until Kathleen passed away on November 13, 2004.
Kathleen and Quentin had five children; Bill, Ann, Mark, Nancy, and Tom. Nancy died in 1969. Quentin continued to operate the Farris Truck Line and also Farris Oil Field Hauling for fifty years. He was a member of the Methodist Church, Scottish Rite, Arabia Temple Shrine, Hull Masonic Lodge, and the Daisetta Lions Club.
Survivors are children, Bill, Ann Guedry, Mark and Tom; twelve grandchildren, Sarah Guedry, Emily, Matthew, Bill, Tom, JoAnna, Jack, Steve, Andy, Dan, Margaret, and Penelope Farris; nephew, Johnny Ager, nieces Martha Ager Goodwin, Janell Farris Johnson, and Nan Ray Farris Lush; sister-in-law Margaret Farris. Pallbearers are Bill, Mark, Tom, Carol, Terry and Bernadette Farris.
Robert Quentin, of Daisetta, passed away in a Beaumont hospital.
Quentin was born, the fifth of five children to Thomas Alonzo and Martha Elizabeth Officer Farris. His brothers were Edmund Burke and John Byron; his sisters were Opal and Alice Tom.
When Quentin was about a year old, his parents moved to Chambers County, Texas. His father Lon tried rice farming for three years, and then moved his family to Daisetta where he started the Farris Truck Line. Quentin went through school at Daisetta. He helped Burke in his grocery store and John in his filling station. He recalled that as a boy, he picked a tremendous amount of strawberries which his parents cultivated.
Quentin was an early member of the Daisetta Methodist Church. He joined the church in March of 1929. Quentin graduated from Hull-Daisetta High School in 1936. The next day he began driving a truck to Houston for his father, until he went into the Air Force in 1942. At the end of his three and a half years service , he returned to Daisetta and took over his fathers truck line. On December 5, 1948, friends arranged a date in Houston with Kathleen Ruth Kelling. Kathleen was working at Herman Hospital in Houston, having recently completed her training there in the Herman Hospital School of Nursing. Quentin and Kathleen were married three weeks later on December 25, 1948. They spent their entire married life together in Daisetta, until Kathleen passed away on November 13, 2004.
Kathleen and Quentin had five children; Bill, Ann, Mark, Nancy, and Tom. Nancy died in 1969. Quentin continued to operate the Farris Truck Line and also Farris Oil Field Hauling for fifty years. He was a member of the Methodist Church, Scottish Rite, Arabia Temple Shrine, Hull Masonic Lodge, and the Daisetta Lions Club.
Survivors are children, Bill, Ann Guedry, Mark and Tom; twelve grandchildren, Sarah Guedry, Emily, Matthew, Bill, Tom, JoAnna, Jack, Steve, Andy, Dan, Margaret, and Penelope Farris; nephew, Johnny Ager, nieces Martha Ager Goodwin, Janell Farris Johnson, and Nan Ray Farris Lush; sister-in-law Margaret Farris. Pallbearers are Bill, Mark, Tom, Carol, Terry and Bernadette Farris.
Quentin was born, the fifth of five children to Thomas Alonzo and Martha Elizabeth Officer Farris. His brothers were Edmund Burke and John Byron; his sisters were Opal and Alice Tom.
When Quentin was about a year old, his parents moved to Chambers County, Texas. His father Lon tried rice farming for three years, and then moved his family to Daisetta where he started the Farris Truck Line. Quentin went through school at Daisetta. He helped Burke in his grocery store and John in his filling station. He recalled that as a boy, he picked a tremendous amount of strawberries which his parents cultivated.
Quentin was an early member of the Daisetta Methodist Church. He joined the church in March of 1929. Quentin graduated from Hull-Daisetta High School in 1936. The next day he began driving a truck to Houston for his father, until he went into the Air Force in 1942. At the end of his three and a half years service , he returned to Daisetta and took over his fathers truck line. On December 5, 1948, friends arranged a date in Houston with Kathleen Ruth Kelling. Kathleen was working at Herman Hospital in Houston, having recently completed her training there in the Herman Hospital School of Nursing. Quentin and Kathleen were married three weeks later on December 25, 1948. They spent their entire married life together in Daisetta, until Kathleen passed away on November 13, 2004.
Kathleen and Quentin had five children; Bill, Ann, Mark, Nancy, and Tom. Nancy died in 1969. Quentin continued to operate the Farris Truck Line and also Farris Oil Field Hauling for fifty years. He was a member of the Methodist Church, Scottish Rite, Arabia Temple Shrine, Hull Masonic Lodge, and the Daisetta Lions Club.
Survivors are children, Bill, Ann Guedry, Mark and Tom; twelve grandchildren, Sarah Guedry, Emily, Matthew, Bill, Tom, JoAnna, Jack, Steve, Andy, Dan, Margaret, and Penelope Farris; nephew, Johnny Ager, nieces Martha Ager Goodwin, Janell Farris Johnson, and Nan Ray Farris Lush; sister-in-law Margaret Farris. Pallbearers are Bill, Mark, Tom, Carol, Terry and Bernadette Farris.
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