Family: Quinn R Bair

Stan Bair's Thoughts (son)

My father taught me many things really too, however most of them were things like hard work, and getting things done when you should. He was a very hard worker. He worked at the Sugar Factory full time and farmed 150 acres on the side. He also helped his father in farming 250 acres. He always provided well for the family and always went to work. He in fact worked 33 years and only was sick from work about 5 days in those thirty three years.

Michael Bair's Thoughts (grandson)

I appreciate Grandpa. I love him and enjoy my visits with him. I know it has been really hard on my grandpa since my grandma has passed away, but there have been some positive things that have come from it. I feel like I have been able to get to know my grandpa more. He is more talkative and appreciates the family that comes by to see him. It must be hard being married to someone for so long and then having to do things on your own. I appreciate the changes that my grandpa is making. I appreciate how he taught my dad to work who then taught me. I appreciate that my grandpa cleaned his life up and his a worthy temple recommend holder. I think it is awesome that he is using his priesthood and participating in family activities. I enjoy joking around with my grandpa and hearing him laugh.

Quinn R. Bair, 79, our father, brother, grandfather, great-grandfather and friend, passed away Monday, Sept. 14, 2009, at a local hospital of natural causes. Quinn was born in Richmond, Utah, at his parents' home on July 6, 1930, to Lloyd Humphrey and Georgia Robinson Bair. He grew up in Richmond, graduating from North Cache High School. He married Darlene Purser on May 23, 1951, in the Logan, Utah, LDS Temple. They made their home in Lewiston, Utah, where he established a home on his father's farm raising and providing for five children. He was known to his family as a hard worker, a good provider. He always wanted to work with his father. He began that to a great extent at the coal yard in Richmond, delivering coal with and for his father. He then worked eight years for the Union Pacific Railroad as a fence builder. He then married and moved to Lewiston to work for his father on the farm and to work at the Amalgamated Sugar Co. His dream was to be partners on the farm with his father and worked hard to do so. In fact, he and his father not only worked the family farm, but they also rented and worked another farm adjacent to the family farm. In 1972 his father died. At the same time the sugar factory closed their doors in Lewiston. He was given an offer to transfer to the Nampa sugar factory and decided to do so. He uprooted and moved his family to Caldwell, Idaho, and worked at the factory in Nampa as a welder and a white sugar boiler until he retired after working for the company for 35 years. Just to show his work ethic a little, while working at the sugar factory, he missed only two days of work in all of his time there. Things he loved were taking his family fishing around the Preston, Idaho, reservoirs and at the Blackfoot reservoir near Soda Springs, Idaho. At one time he showed his family how to catch a seagull by the wing while casting his line out. When he retired he spent a lot of the time dragging his loving wife to go fishing at Little Camas and the Mountain View reservoirs. At least until his wife put her foot down and said enough is enough. Aside loving fishing he loved his wife and family with all his heart. His ultimate goal became to live with his beloved family forever as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. When his wife died in 2007, most all that was on his mind was to live the way his beloved wife would want him to live so she would want him when he went up to meet her. It was the driving force in his latter life. He is survived by five of his six children, Kathy (Clair) Hibbard of Providence, Utah, LaNae (Michael) Beckstead of Idaho Falls, Stanley (Becky) Bair, Steven (Charlene) Bair and Lloyd (Christine) Bair all of Caldwell, Idaho; two sisters, Ruth Lundgreen and Mary Jane Larsen; one brother, Kenneth Bair; and a sister-in-law, Linda Bair Leishman. He is preceded in death by his loving wife; a baby daughter; his parents; and two brothers, Gerald Bair and William Bair. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Friday Sept. 18, at 11838 Linden Rd. at the Caldwell East Stake building, with Bishop Derik Hubert conducting. Visitation will be from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 17, at the Linden building, and from 9:30 to 10:15 a.m. Friday, Sept. 18, in the Relief Society room, prior to the funeral services. Burial and the grave dedication will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 19, the Richmond, Utah, cemetery.

Published in Logan Herald Journal from Sept. 18 to Oct. 1, 2009

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