Remembrances may be sent to Kline Galland Home, 7512 Seward Park Ave. Other survivors include his wife Esther Quint and his daughter Janice Soble, of Bellevue his sister Marilyn Forse, Portland his brother Millard Oksner, Phoenix, and five grandchildren. "We're thinking of starting a fund to build a memorial spa there," his son said. He was board president there when he died. Quint served on the board of the Carolyn Kline Galland Home, a Jewish retirement and convalescent facility. When he got involved in nursing homes, he dragged her around to those."įor 20 years, Mr. "He used to drag my mother to cemeteries on their travels. "At the dinner table, he'd talk about the equipment they'd just bought to dig graves - it fascinated him," his son said. Quint was involved with Temple de Hirsch Sinai, chairing the cemetery committee that ran Hills of Eternity cemetery. He used to write funny little songs and poems for us on special occasions."
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"Dad served as a role model for many people in the industry," said his daughter, Kathleen Weiner of Mill Valley, Calif. At one time, he was national vice president of National Spa and Pool Institute. He also was active in Lions Club, B'nai B'rith, and Seattle Executive Association. Jason Churchward, the manager of Aqua Quip Seattle, loves helping customers find exactly what they need for their homes and makes. From our humble beginnings in 1959 selling pool chemicals, the Seattle store is the best place to find swimming pools, hot tubs, grills, fireplaces, and more. So was helping the Arthritis Foundation, once he heard swimming was easy on the joints. Our Seattle location is our original Aqua Quip store. Pools are a vehicle to keep your family at home." "Having a pool used to be something the elite would do, a sign of status. "He saw many changes in the business," said his son.
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In 1969, he and his wife "jumped in with both feet," selling the lumber company and getting into the pool and spa-supply business full time. Wanting to diversify, he "tested the waters" by opening a pool-supply business. When his wife's father retired in 1959, Mr. He served in the Army during World War II, married in 1947 and went to work for his wife's family's Washington Lumber Co. Quint graduated from West Seattle High School and attended the University of Washington. Louis to Seattle in 1933, but they already had a son and struggled to keep their furniture store on First Avenue going in the Depression." "He was such a family man," said his son, Brian Quint of Bellevue, "because he never had anything like that as a child. He put family first, volunteered in the community, and stood ready to give employees a hand or to pay their share of health-care deductions. Quint also never forgot losing his mother at 7 and his father at 10, or growing up needy. "Sweet and unpretentious" with an orderly streak that compelled him to wrap rubber bands around folded-up belts in his bureau drawer, Mr. The founder of Aqua-Quip Pool Supply - one of the Northwest's oldest such companies - made them as often as he could. Richard Bertram Quint never tired of swimming-pool jokes.
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