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- [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
- [S459] Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services; Helena, Montana; Montana Death Records, Quinnell, Fred C.
- [S466] Finger Lakes Time, Splittstoesser, Clara Mae (Quinnell).
GENEVA - Clara Mae (Quinnell) Splittstoesser, passed away Saturday (January 7, 2012) in her home in Geneva, N.Y.
Memorial contributions should be made to the charity of one's choice.
Clara was born January 19, 1929, in Miles City, Montana and was a daughter of the late Fred and the late Clara (Collett) Quinnell. Clara received her Bachelor of Science in Bacteriology from Montana State College in 1950, and her Master of Science (1951) and PhD (1956) in Bacteriology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Following two years as a pest-doctoral trainee at the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center, Clara became an insect pathologist in the Entomology Department at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, N.Y. Clara authored a number of research papers while at the Experimental Station. Clara married Don F. Splittstoesser on March 28, 1959. Was an avid musician who enjoyed playing the piano, violin, and ukulele. Clara was a supporter of the Geneva Concert Series and many other local arts and music societies and was a member of the Catharine Foster Hopkins Art Reading club since 1977.
Arrangements were handled through Palmisano-Mull Funeral Home, LLC.
To plant trees in memory, please visit the Sympathy Store.
Finger Lakes Times: 22JAN2012
Accessed: 02JAN2026
- [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
- [S468] Cornell Univeristy, Splittstoesser, Donald Frederick.
Donald Frederick Splittstoesser
August 17, 1927 — December 23, 2001
Don Splittstoesser was born in Tomah, Wisconsin and received his Bachelor’s, Master’s and Doctorate degrees at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Agriculture, Bacteriology, and Bacteriology and Biochemistry in 1952, 1953 and 1956 respectively. Don was a Project Associate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for a brief period of time immediately following his graduate work. He then worked for two years as Chief of the Serology Branch (1st Lieutenant) in the 6th U.S. Army Medical Service Corps at Fort Mason, San Francisco, California. In 1958, Don was hired as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Food Science and Technology at Cornell University. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1964 and to Professor in 1969. Don served as Departmental Chair from 1982-89. In 1995, he was named Professor Emeritus, but continued an active research program as well as his participation on several editorial boards, and as a contributing editor for several books.
Don was active in numerous professional organizations, including: the Institute of Food Technologists, American Society for Microbiology, and the American Society of Enology and Viticulture. He served as President of the Central New York Branch of the American Society of Microbiology (1966), Chairman of the Western New York Section of the Institute of Food Technologists (1970), and Chairman of the Eastern Section of the American Society of Enology and Viticulture (ASEV). In 1984, he was named a Fellow of the Institute of Food Technologists. The Eastern Section of the American Society for Enology and Viticulture honored Don with the Outstanding Achievement Award in 1991 for his wine research and personal contributions to ASEV. In 1994, Don was awarded the William V. Hickey Award by the New York State Association of Milk and Food Sanitarians. He was invited by USAID in 1990 to assist the Indian government regarding the development of their fruit and vegetable industry.
Within a very short time after joining Cornell, Don established himself as a leading researcher in the area of fruit and vegetable microbiology. Don’s research focused on the microbiology of frozen fruits and vegetables that has now become the basis for assessing the microbiological quality and safety of fruits and vegetables. Other active research areas included the physiology of heat resistant molds and the preservation and safety of fruit juices, ciders and wines. His research resulted in significant contributions to the food and beverage industry. As a result of his active research program, he published more than 200 research papers as well as numerous book chapters and served as the co-editor for several editions of the internationally recognized, Compendium of Methods for the Microbiological Examination of Foods.
Don is survived by his wife, Clara Splittstoesser, a former microbiologist in the Entomology Department at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station; and by his sister, Ruth (Harley) Erbs, who lives in Rhinelander, Wisconsin. He was an avid amateur wine maker and an enthusiastic supporter of the arts.
Don’s concern for others, his kindness, his honesty, his quality work and administrative abilities were highly appreciated by his colleagues, his department, the university, and throughout the worldwide scientific community. We have truly lost an outstanding scientist and a dear friend.
Don Downing, Andy Rao, Gil Stoewsand, Randy W. Worobo
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1929 - 2012 (82 years)
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