Adolph Kvietkauskas

1917 - 2012

Adolph F. Kvietkauskas, 95, of Portland, passed away Friday, May 11, 2012, at Middlesex Hospital. He was the loving husband of Anne (Guckian) Kvietkauskas, to whom he had been married for 62 years. He was the son of the late Adolph and Julia (Stankevich) Kvietkauskas.
Al was born on May 5, 1917, in Windsor and lived in Portland for most of his life and spent some of his formative years in Lithuania. He enjoyed every aspect of aviation, including having served in the Air National Guard after being discharged from the Marine Corps. He served as a glider pilot with a rank of flight officer. He held several flight ratings including, commercial pilot, military glider and helicopter. After retiring from Pratt and Whitney after 36 years, he continued on with his own business, which he started years earlier. Al lived in the house he built himself in 1954. He enjoyed travel and traveled extensively, visiting the Far East, Tahiti, Australia, New Zealand and all over Europe. He also volunteered for the New England Air Museum for over 10 years and he was a member of the Church of St. Mary in Portland.
Besides his wife, he is survived by his sons, Robert and his wife, Teresa of Carlisle, Mass., Dennis and his wife, Laura of Hebron, and Gary and his wife, Francine of Portland, daughter, Julie Ahearn and her husband, Brian of Killingworth, a sister, Victoria Kverega of Quincy, Mass., seven grandchildren, John and Michael Ahearn, Peter Kvietkauskas, Callie and Scott Yorker, and Annie and John Pauler, and five great-grandchildren.
He was predeceased by a brother, Benjamin, and by a sister, Anne Daniels.
Funeral services will be held Wednesday, May 16, with a Mass at 11 a.m. at the Church of St. Mary, 51 Freestone Ave., Portland. Burial will be in the State Veterans Cemetery, Middletown. Relatives and friends may call on Wednesday from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. at the Portland Memorial Funeral Home, 231 Main St., Portland.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Middlesex Hospital Hospice, 28 Crescent St., Middletown, CT 06457 or to the Church of St. Mary, 51 Freestone Ave., Portland, CT 06480. To send an online expression of sympathy, please visit www.portlandmemorialfh.net. His family greatly appreciates all the kindness shown by Hospice, therefore enabling him to celebrate his 95th birthday at home.
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