James L. Quinlan

Quinlan, James L. DELMAR James L. Quinlan, 84, died January 14, 2010 after a long illness. He was born in New York City on April 13, 1925 to James L. Quinlan and Rose A. McDer-mott and was raised in the Bronx. He was attending Manhattan College in 1943 when he entered the U.S. Army and later the specialized training program at CCNY. He was then assigned to the Infantry and Signal Corps and served in the Southwest Pacific Theater in New Guinea and the Philippine Islands from 1944 to 1946. After discharge, he attended Iona College and New York Law School, being admitted to the New York State bar in 1951. He re-entered the U.S. Army in 1952 where he was commissioned as a first lieutenant in the Judge Advocate General's Corps. He attended the JAG school at the University of Virginia and served from 1952 to 1954. It was also during this time he met his wife, Pauline Mary Mooney, serving as a lieutenant in the Women's Army Corps. Following his discharge he worked for the Traveler's Insurance Co. and The Atlantic Refining Company in Syracuse, N.Y. He later moved to Albany where he worked for the State of New York in the Department of Public Works, Office of Parks and Recreation and the Department of Law from 1962 to when he retired in 1993. He was a member of the Nathaniel Blanchard American Legion Post, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, both in Delmar, and the Albany YMCA. James was predeceased by his wife, Pauline M. Quinlan on November 6, 2009; an infant daughter, Maureen Patricia Quinlan; a brother, John C. Quinlan; and a nephew, John C. Quinlan, Jr. He is survived by his daughters, Katharine Quinlan and Mary Ellen (Mel) Quinlan, her husband John Oberlander, and their son Conor James Oberlander, all of Delmar; as well as cousins of the Quinlan and McDermott families. A reception in celebration of both James and Pauline Quinlan will be held at the Nathaniel Blanchard American Legion Post 1040, Poplar Drive, Delmar, on Monday, January 18 from 5-8 p.m. Friends and family are invited to call. Services will be held at Holy Family Parish, 279 Central Ave., Albany, on Tuesday at 11:00 a.m. Following the service both James and his wife, Pauline M. Quinlan will be interred in the Saratoga National Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, those desiring may send a remembrance in James' or Pauline's name to the Delmar Fire and Emergency Medical Services, PO Box 337, Delmar, NY 12054.