Date of Birth:
Tuesday, August 10, 1915
Date of Death:
Tuesday, January 16, 2018
Age:
102 years old

Helen “Pat” Quiter

Helen Patricia “Pat” Quiter, a long-time Rochester, Minnesota resident, died at the Charter House of Rochester on the seventeenth of January. The body was donated to the Mayo Anatomy Department for Research.

The Memorial Mass will be held at St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church on January 20, 2018 at 11:00 AM with Father John LaSuba presiding. Visitation will be held 30 minutes prior to the funeral at the church. Burial will be at a later date.

Pat was born on August 10, 1915 in Chicago, and moved to Elmhurst, Illinois at the age of 10. She lived there until 1940. She married Joseph J. Quiter in Elmhurst on July 23, 1938.

After graduating from York High School in Elmhurst, she had her own “School of Dancing” for five years. She and Joe moved to Milwaukee in 1940, and stayed until 1946, including the time while Joe was on active duty in the Military. She worked for A.O. Smith of Milwaukee during that time.

She and Joe moved to Rochester in 1946, where they raised their family. She was active in St. Francis Rosary Society, Girl Scouts, Cub Scouts, and, for 35 years, St. Mary’s Hospital Auxiliary. She was also on various committees at the Charter House, where she moved with Joe and had lived since 1987.

Pat is survived by two sons: John (Elaine) of Berkeley, CA and James (Karen) of Walnut Creek, CA.; eight grandchildren: Jennifer Connor, Jill Hedlund, Joel Connor, Jacquelyn Bacigalupi, Aron Quiter, Brian Quiter, Jeffrey Quiter, and Leslie Quiter; and eight great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband Joe, her daughter Jane Connor (Jerry) of Sauk Rapids, MN, her parents, and two brothers.

The family prefers memorials to Charter House Benevolent Care Fund, or to a charity of the Donor’s choice.