Visiting: Tuesday (4/16) 4-7 PM
Mass: Wednesday (4/17) 12 Noon @ Our Lady of Angels R.C. Church
Cemetery: Calvary Cemetery (Woodside, NY)

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Margaret Quinn, always called Sis or Aunt Sis, was born on May 24th 1917 in Brooklyn. She was the second child and the first girl born to James and Margaret Quinn both of whom had emigrated from County Tipperary, Ireland. She grew up in Brooklyn and after high school she went to work at various jobs. During WW II she worked for Western Electric on an assembly line. After the war she went back to school to be trained on a business machine called the comptometer, used heavily on Wall Street to calculate the prices of stocks and bonds in decimals. She excelled at this work and continued to work on Wall Street for many decades.During the 1960s she recognized that IBM was an up and comer and she invested in it before most people.  In 1993 when the World Trade Center was attacked Sis fled the building without her coat and took the subway home.When she finally retired from Dean Witter/Morgan Stanley she was in her late eighties. Many people were shocked that she was so old, but due to her life long love of yogurt and walking everywhere she looked 20 years younger.

Sis lived on 75th Street in Bay Ridge for over 70 years and was a devoted parishioner at Our Lady of Angels Church all those years. On Saturday afternoon at 4:55 you would  see her walking briskly from her apartment building to 5:00 mass at OLA. She loved to shop and you would often find her on 5th Avenue in Bay Ridge or taking the subway to Lord and Taylor. Always the subway, she didn't like buses and never learned to drive.She loved Lord and Taylor and shopping there became her hobby in retirement. She lived independently until she was in her middle nineties. When the time came for her to make a move it was to Staten Island to be closer to her sister Alice and some of her nieces and nephews who had moved from Brooklyn to Staten Island, especially her nephew Kevin and his wife Deirdre who took great care of her. She loved her nieces, nephews, and great nieces and nephews and was very generous to them.