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- [S461] Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services; Helena, Montana; Montana State Marriage Records, 1943-1986, Marriage Certificate: Quinnell, Arthur C & Shirley R. Cosens.
- [S395] Naples Daily News, The, Quinnell, Arthur C.
Arthur C. Quinnell
Marco Island, FL
Arthur C. Quinnell, 76, of Marco Island, FL, passed away on December 22,2003 at home following a brief illness. Art resided with his wife of 52 years, Shirley and one son, David. Art was born at Miles City, MT and attended schools at Miles City, Glendive and Butte. After serving in the U.S. Navy Air Corps he attended college at Montana School of Mines, Colorado College and Montana State where he graduated in 1950 with a degree in Civil Engineering and Land Surveying.
His engineering career began principally with the Montana Highway Department as interstate engineer. Art was the third generation of engineers in the Quinnell family. His grandfather, Fred Sr., was city manager at Bozeman. His father, Fred Jr., was state highway engineer.
In 1969 Arthur accepted the resident engineer position of Deltona Corporation overring the Development of Marco Island. He was president of Tri-County Engineering in Naples during the early 1970's. He was also adjunct professor for Florida International University.
Since retiring, he established a private engineering consultation company as wel as working with AGS Inc. as primary engineer in Ft. Myers, and later served as vice President of PEICO, Inc.
Art is survived by his wife Shirley; sons and daughters-in-law; Dan and Barbara, Don and Geralyn, and David; four grandchildren, LeAnna, Chet, George and Luke; and sister Clara Mae Splitstoesser of Geneva, NY.
Memorial service will be held on January 3, 2004 at 1:00 p.m. at St. Mark's Episcopal Church, 1101 North Collier Blvd., Marco Island.
Naples Daily News, The: 27DEC2003
Accessed: 19DEC2025
- [S467] Billings Gazette, The, Quinnell, Clara (Collett).
Mrs. Quinnell Dies in Helena
HELENA (UPI) - Mrs. Fred Quinnell Jr., wife of Montana's highway enginner, died Monday at Helena hospital at the age of 57.
Mrs. Quinnell had been ill several months.
The funeral service will be Wednesday afternoon in the Retz Funeral Home in Helena with the rev. George A. Harper of St. Paul's Methodist Church officiating.
Mrs. Quinnell was born in Bozeman, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Collette. She attended grade and high schools in Kelin and studied at Western Montana College of Education in Dillon.
She married Quinnell in 1926 in Terry where he was a project engineer for he Highway Department. Thereafter, they lived in Miles City, Jordan, Wolf Point, Glendive, Butte and Helena. They moved to Helena in 1956 when Quinnell was promoted from division engineer in Butte to administrative engineer in Helena.
Surviving, in addition to her husband, are a son, Arthur, who is assistant administrative engineer for the Highway Department in Helena, a daughter, Dr. Clara Mae Spittstosser who, with her husband, is doing research at Cornell University in New York, and two grandchildren in Helena.
Mrs. Quinnell was a past matron of the Order of Eastern Star chapter in Butte and member of the Daughters of the Nile in Butte.
Billings Gazette, The: 30SEP1963
Accessed: 02JAN2026
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