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Baker-Post Funeral Home & Cremation Center
10001 Nokesville Road
MANASSAS, Virginia
UNITED STATES
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In 1958, I was fresh out of college with a teaching degree and trying to make a livng as a beginning teacher for Prince William County Schools. To supplement my income, I had taken a part time evening job at one of Caton Merchant's Esso stations. Quentin at the time was working at the Journal Messenger as their advertising manager. I had known him by name only, but he knew me from my high school days at Osbourn. On one uneventful evening, Quentin pulled up to the gas pump at the station where I was working and asked for a fill-up. Unbeknown to me, the circulation manager at the Journal Mesenger had quit and Quentin had assumed that additional responsibility temporarily. Eager to find a replacement to deliver newspapers to 8 carrier boys and twelve news stands, he asked if I might be interested in another part time job, which only required me to work one afternoon a week, Wednesday, delivery day. It would be after school hours, so I replied yes. The next day I interviewed with Mr. Willard, the Journal general manager, and was offered the job. The following Wednesday, Quentin and I loaded the Journal van with papers and began the three hour delivery process. Quentin, trying his best to find a replacement, guided me through every carrier and news stand stop wth a cheerful smile and a "see how easy it is" gesture. At a starting salary of $18 a week it was defnitely a bundle of work and added responsibility, but I took the job. From that day on Quentin and I became working friends. He worked upstairs and I worked downstair, but we always managed to meet and chat on the busiest day of the week, Wednesday. I worked for the Journal as their circulation manager for ten years. During all of these years and up to his passing, Quentin and I became best of friends. I shall remember him as an exceptionally talented, friendly, caring and honorable man, who openly shared his love and compassion for life with his family and friends. I shall miss him.
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