Robert Dean Quick Sr., 82, of Minonk, passed on with his family at his side at 6:07 a.m. Sunday (March 5, 2006) at St. Mary's Hospital, Streator.

Celebration of life service will be 11 a.m. Saturday at Immanuel Lutheran Church, Minonk, with the Rev. Craig Swenson officiating. Burial will follow at Minonk Township Cemetery, with military graveside rites. Visitation will be from 4 to 7 p.m. Friday at Calvert & Froelich Memorial Home, Minonk. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the American Lung Association.

He was born Sept. 10, 1923, in Clinton County, the son of George Thomas and Mabel Cleo Yardley Quick. He married Mary F. Yates on Jan. 27, 1951, in Clay County, Ark. She died Oct. 6, 1998.

Surviving are three daughters, Sarah (Stan) Heihn of Austin, Texas; Rachel (Karl) Provost of Lakeway, Texas; and Rebecca Quick of Minonk; two sons, Robert (Janet) Quick Jr. of Aledo, Texas, and Thomas (Sue) Quick of Craig, Colo.; two brothers, Carl (Marilyn) Quick of Streator and Tom (Sue) Quick of Blackstone; and three sisters, Dorothy Alf of Carlyle; Edna Chatman of Centralia; and Lucille Abernathy of Bay St. Louis, Miss. He had eight grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren.

He was a member of Immanuel Lutheran Church; the American Legion Post 142; and a life member of the Minonk V.F.W. Post 7185. He was a World War II U.S. Army veteran serving as an aviator engineer. He owned and operated the Quick Sunoco in Minonk for 15 years, then worked for the Minonk bakery in 1988, and retired from the Woodford County Housing in Minonk in 2005 where he was the maintenance manager. He was an avid St. Louis Cardinals fan.