Ruth Quinn Marsteller

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RUTH QUINN MARSTELLER

Ruth Quinn Marsteller, died in Springfield, VA on June 10, 2007, after a long illness.

Born Ruth Mary Quinn on January 12, 1919, in Washington, DC, to Henry I. and Lillian H. Quinn, she grew up in the District of Columbia, graduating from Trinity College in that city in 1939. In 1941, Ruth married Lt. Comm (USN) Frederick Arell Marsteller of Washington, DC. On Fred's return from his service in World War II, he founded Marsteller, McCabe & Co. Real Estate in Washington. Ruth became a Realtor, earning a broker's license while raising the couple's six lively children. She ultimately held licenses in the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia. One of Ruth's proudest achievements was the 1967 sale of the Robert E. Lee Boyhood Home in Old Town Alexandria to the Lee-Jackson Foundation, which opened it to the public until 2000. In addition, she was pleased to have served for a number of years on the Professional Standards and Ethics Committees of the Northern Virginia Board of Realtors.

Ruth was a gifted painter and art lover, pursuing her artistic interests and studies from the Outer Banks of North Carolina to Spain and Italy. Her art extended to her gardens, which were a lifelong passion. She was a member of the Hunting Creek Garden Club for many years, participating in Historic Virginia Garden Week and other local and state wide events. Genealogy was another abiding interest, and Ruth used the Internet to great advantage to research both the Marsteller and Quinn families, locating long-lost cousins in Ireland, among other achievements.

She was predeceased by her parents, by her brother Morgan Jerome Quinn, tragically killed in action in Italy shortly before the end of World War II; and by her husband Frederick in 1980. She is survived by all six of her children: Karen Marsteller Myers Nash of Newport, RI, Claire Marsteller Tieder of Charlottesville, VA, Frederick Arell Marsteller, Jr., of Atlanta, GA, Lyn Marsteller of Cincinnati, OH, Margot Marsteller McMillan of Pavo, GA and David Arell Marsteller of Alexandria, VA and Seattle, WA. Her grandchildren are Christian W. Myers of Portsmouth, RI, Meredith Myers LeBlanc of Newport, RI, John B. Tieder III, of Philadelphia, PA and Nicholas Elliott Tieder of New York, NY. Her great-grandchildren are Julia Louise Myers and Olivia Anne Myers of Portsmouth, RI.

A memorial Mass will be celebrated at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Alexandria, VA, on Monday, July 9 at 10:30 a.m. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests that donations in Ruth Marsteller's memory can be sent to Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land, 1400 Quincy St. NE, Washington, DC 20017 or online at

http://www.myfranciscan.org/donateNational Shrine of St. Jude Claretian Missionaries, 205 W. Monroe St., Chicago, IL 60606 or online at http://stjudeleague.org/.