She graduated from Georgia State College for Women in 1954. She started her career as a teacher at her alma mater, Decatur High School, where she taught Home Economics. She married Walter Andrew Quinn, Jr., and raised four sons. In the mid-1970's, she returned to work for the Frog Pond, a children's apparel company based in Atlanta. She and Walter first came to Hilton Head in 1959 and built a vacation home in Sea Pines in 1961. They were retail pioneers opening Wingfield's and Wingfield's Back Porch at the William Hilton Inn Plaza in 1964. They moved permanently from Atlanta to Hilton Head in 1979 and opened a second Wingfield's at Sea Pines Center. Upon the closing of Wingfield's, she worked at Forsythe Jewelers until her retirement. In 2000, they moved to Bluffton, SC where they lived until Walter's passing in 2014. She returned to Atlanta, living at Mount Vernon Towers in Sandy Springs until her passing. She was preceded in death by her her parents, Mary (Hemperley) Stewart and Charles Edwin Stewart, Jr.; husband of 55 years, Walter; and brother, Charles E Stewart III. She leaves her four sons, John Thomas and Barbara Quinn of Maplewood, NJ, Jeffrey Stewart and Paige Quinn of Palmetto Bluff, SC, Brian Andrew and Pam Quinn of Greensboro, GA, and Bruce Edward and Kelly Quinn of Hilton Head Island, SC; eight grandchildren, Andy, Ryan, Katie, Stewart, Madison, Davis, Genevieve and Fisher Quinn; and great granddaughter, Lucy.
She graduated from Georgia State College for Women in 1954. She started her career as a teacher at her alma mater, Decatur High School, where she taught Home Economics. She married Walter Andrew Quinn, Jr., and raised four sons. In the mid-1970's, she returned to work for the Frog Pond, a children's apparel company based in Atlanta. She and Walter first came to Hilton Head in 1959 and built a vacation home in Sea Pines in 1961. They were retail pioneers opening Wingfield's and Wingfield's Back Porch at the William Hilton Inn Plaza in 1964. They moved permanently from Atlanta to Hilton Head in 1979 and opened a second Wingfield's at Sea Pines Center. Upon the closing of Wingfield's, she worked at Forsythe Jewelers until her retirement. In 2000, they moved to Bluffton, SC where they lived until Walter's passing in 2014. She returned to Atlanta, living at Mount Vernon Towers in Sandy Springs until her passing. She was preceded in death by her her parents, Mary (Hemperley) Stewart and Charles Edwin Stewart, Jr.; husband of 55 years, Walter; and brother, Charles E Stewart III. She leaves her four sons, John Thomas and Barbara Quinn of Maplewood, NJ, Jeffrey Stewart and Paige Quinn of Palmetto Bluff, SC, Brian Andrew and Pam Quinn of Greensboro, GA, and Bruce Edward and Kelly Quinn of Hilton Head Island, SC; eight grandchildren, Andy, Ryan, Katie, Stewart, Madison, Davis, Genevieve and Fisher Quinn; and great granddaughter, Lucy.
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