Edward B Quant

QUANT, EDWARD B. Age 87, a former long-standing resident of Plymouth, passed away on August 10, 2014. A private family service was held at Oak Hill Cemetery in Indian River, MI on August 23, 2014. Ed was born in Oxford, OH on December 26, 1926, to Leslie and Ruby Quant. Soon after, the family moved to Valley City, ND, where Ed spent his childhood years, graduating from Valley City High School in 1943. Drafted into the U.S. Navy, Ed served as a Petty Officer Third Class on a minesweeper in the South Pacific during World War II. After his discharge from military service, he enrolled at Cornell College in Mt. Vernon, IA, where he met his future wife Alice Marie Briggs. After graduation the couple was married on June 18, 1949, and moved to Iowa City, IA while Ed earned a Master's degree in Labor and Industrial Management from the University of Iowa. His career in the trucking and manufacturing industries caused them to move several times while they raised their children, ultimately settling in Plymouth, MI, where they resided for the last 25 years of their 62-year marriage. While living in Plymouth, Ed was active in the community, working with the Plymouth Literacy Council and the Rotary Club of Plymouth. The one constant in Alice and Ed's married life was the log house her father had built in the early 1920's just outside of Indian River in the woods of northern Michigan. There they returned with their children and grandchildren for annual summer vacations and shared countless months of their autumn years happily puttering around the house and yard, painting and staining, splitting wood, walking in the woods and rocking on the front porch. After the death of his beloved wife Alice in 2011, Ed moved to Waxhaw, NC, to live with his daughter Barbara and her husband Gerry. Ed is survived by three children: Kathleen, Barbara and William; four grandchildren, Christiane, Andreas, Anthony and Richard; and one great-granddaughter, Sina.