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Show LAST RITES HELD FOR BARNEY QUINN Requiem mass for Bernard F. (Barney) Quinn, 55, a native of Bingham and former chairman of the Salt Lake county commission, com-mission, was celebrated Thursday Thurs-day morning in the Cathedral of the Madeleine, Salt Lake City. For many years a leader in Utah Democratic circles, Mr. Quinn died Sunday morning in a Las Animas, Colo., hospital following an illness of 18 months. A son of Bernard B. and Julia Coleman Quinn, Mr. Quinn was educated in Bingham elementary school, West high school of Salt Lake City, All-Hallows college and the University of Utah. In 1916 he became chief deputy de-puty county clerk, leaving that post a year later to enlist as a private with the United States army in the World war. He served serv-ed overseas 14 months. After the war he was an assistant assist-ant steani shovel engineer for the Utah Copper company and a salesman for the Vitagraph Film company, manager of his father's estate and president of the B. F. Quinn corporation. He was elected county commissioner com-missioner in 1929, reelected in 1932 and appointed chairman of the board in 1935. He retired at the close of 1936. Surviving are his widow, Pearl Arnett Quinn, whom he married in 1924; two sisters, Lucy A. Quinn and . Mrs. Marguerite Quinn George, and a niece, Marguerite Mar-guerite George, all of Salt Lake City. Interment was in Mt. Calvary cemetery. |