Harriette Jones Quin

Mrs. Harriette Jones Quin, 88, resident of Athenaeum St., died Thursday, August 5, 2004 at Maury Regional Hospital. Funeral services will be conducted at 10 a.m., Saturday, at St. Peter's Episcopal Church with The Rev. Thomas Wilson officiating. Interment will follow at Rose Hill Cemetery. The family will visit with friends Friday from 5-7 p.m. at Oakes & Nichols Funeral Home. Memorials may be made to the James K. Polk Association, 303 W. 7th St., Columbia, TN, 38401 or St. Peter's Episcopal Church, 311 W. 7th St., Columbia, TN, 38401. Notes of sympathy may be sent to the family at www.oakesandnichols.com. Born at Bethel Place plantation in Maury County, Mrs. Quin was the daughter of the late Clark Jones and Kate Latta Gordon Wilkes. She was the wife of the late Major Oliver Benton Quin, III. She was educated at the Columbia Female Institute and Chatham Hall and was a graduate of Stuart Hall in Virginia. On the opening day of World War II, she was rescued after being torpedoed in the Canadian steamship Athenia. During the war, she served as an official of the American Red Cross. She served as President of the James K. Polk Auxiliary and was a board member of the Maury County Historical Society. She was a lifelong Episcopalian and the longest-term communicant of St. Peter's Church. Survivors include three sons, Oliver Benton Quin, IV of Venice Beach, California, Clark Jones Quin of Boston, Massachusetts, Richard Hilary Quin of Knoxville; one brother, Dr. James Wallace Wilkes, Jr. of Columbia; one nephew, James Wallace Wilkes, III, and three nieces Helen Shapard Hickman, Kay Shapard Curtis and Dr. Nancy Wilkes. She was preceded in death by a sister, Helen Clark Jones Shapard. Honorary pallbearers will be members of the Vestry of St. Peter's Church.