Doris "Lucille" Quinn Stanley (104) of Louisville

Funeral services to celebrate the life of Lucille will be held at 10 am, Monday, July 15, 2024, at the McGriff Funeral Home in Louisville with Ron Payne officiating. Burial will follow at the Floral Garden of Memories Cemetery, Flora, Illinois. Visitation will be held at the funeral home on Sunday evening where friends may call from 4:00 to 7:00 pm, and then on Monday from 9:00 to 10:00 am. 

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to St. Jude because no one pays when they go to St. Jude and they share their research with the entire world. St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital ~ 501 St. Jude Place ~ Memphis, TN  38105 

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Doris attended a one room school house, Little Grove School, and Louisville North Clay High School. During high school, she lived at a boarding house in town with other girls, who could only go home to visit their families when the roads weren’t too muddy. She played basketball for one year in high school. They had a traveling team that would go to Flora for games. Their team was called the Silly Willys. She was one of seven girls in a class of 23 her senior year and was elected President of her senior class.

Lucille attended Eastern Illinois University for three years and quit to take a teaching job to help her parents as the Depression Era ended.  She married Delton Stanley in 1944 in Klamath Falls, Oregon where he was stationed in the US Marine Corps.  They were married 56 years until his death in 2000.

Lucille completed her Bachelor’s Degree in Elementary Education in the summer of 1962 while coming home on weekends to review construction details on a new home they were building.  Lucille was influenced by five of her Quinn Family aunts and uncles who were teachers.  She taught at one room school houses - Rayburn, Little Grove and Jenkins Schools before finishing 30 years of teaching at Clay City Grade School with several years as the Junior High Math Teacher.

Lucille enjoyed gardening, growing a variety of flowers in her perennial garden that still burst into bright colors each year, plus planting a long fence row of pine trees and various fruit/nut trees around the farm. She found time somehow to sew most all the clothes when her children were young, from school clothes to summer outfits to winter lined coats.  Summers were spent planting, growing then freezing or canning many fruits and vegetables from her many gardens.  For many years, they also raised chickens, sheep, geese, cows for milking and pigs.   

Delton and Lucille were always a team working together on their Hoosier Township farm planting corn, soybeans and wheat plus starting a strawberry U-Pick patch and farm market w/pumpkins, mums, and all kinds of seasonal fruit/vegetables. They later spent 12 winters in Sebring, Florida.

Lucille had the good fortune of good health and we would like to thank her part time caregivers over the last few years -- Gloria Frohning, Melody Birch, LaDonna Goodman,Alissa Morris, and Miranda Stoneking.  She was able to live at home all but the last 29 days which were at the Flora, Rehab and Healthcare Nursing Home in Flora.  We want to thank all the employees there for treating her with great kindness and care.

Lucille was preceded in death by her husband, parents George Andrew Quinn and Della May (Brooks) Quinn, brother Bob Quinn, grandson Daren Potts, and son-in-law Bill Potts.  

Lucille is survived by three daughters: Linda Stanley (husband Bob Gardner) of Glenview, IL, Brenda Stanley (husband Dave Marsh) of Chandler, AZ, and Jane Potts, Louisville, IL.  She is also survived by three grandchildren; Rebecca Bach, Barbara Baugh, and Derek Potts as well as three great-grandchildren; Andrea Mansbery, Matthew Mansbery, and Dayana Potts.

Lucille was a lifelong member of the Illinois Teacher’s Association and the American Legion Auxiliary.