Timothy Lee Quinlan

Barre-Timothy Lee Quinlan, age 76, of Barre, Vermont, passed away on September 19, 2021. He grew up residing mainly in North Reading Massachusetts with his parents, Jean Homewood (Baker) Quinlan and Leo Francis Quinlan. Tim was an electronics whiz-kid as well as an artist and creator, moving from medium to medium and interest to interest throughout his life, ever curious to learn and try new things. As a young adult, Tim expressed his abiding concern for social justice by joining the early Civil Rights Movement where he worked with the SCLC for several years on voter registration in the South, was shot at, jailed in Birmingham, and provided tech support for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., most notably for the march from Selma to Montgomery. Tim loved traveling the world whenever he got the chance, and was an avid fossil collector. He lived in the greater Boston area most of his life, trying his hand at any number of entrepreneurial efforts, from starting a boutique in Reading, MA, to establishing and...