Directions to Coster-Heppner Funeral Home
Coster-Heppner Funeral Home is located at 32470 Main Road in Cutchogue, NY. Please note that Main Road and NYS Route 25 are one and the same. Cutchogue is a hamlet in the Town of Southold on the North Fork of Long Island. Cutchogue is approximately mid-way from where the North fork begins and where it ends.
Directions from west of Coster-Heppner Funeral Home
If you are traveling from the west, take the Long Island Expressway (LIE) to exit 73. This exist will put you on County Route 58 which later merges with Route 25. Continue going straight (eastbound) for 14.9 miles. The funeral home will be on the right hand side. The King Kullen shopping plaza is on the left shortly before seeing the funeral home on the right.
Directions from east of Coster-Heppner Funeral Home
If you are traveling from east of Coster-Heppner Funeral Home, drive west on Route 25/Main Road until you get to Cutchogue. The funeral home will be on your left about 500 feet past Cox Lane.
From West:
Head east on NY-25/MAIN RD, continue to 52125 Route 25 Southold, NY 11971. St. Patick Church will be on the North (left) side, at the bend in the road.
From East:
Head west on NY-25/MAIN RD, continue to 52125 Route 25 Southold, NY 11971. St. Patick Church will be on the North (right) side, at the bend in the road.
QUINN - Joseph F., 94, of Southold, on August 24th.
Beloved husband of Mary (nee Fitzpatrick).
Loving father of Kevin of New Hyde Park, Laurence of Garden City, Joseph of Forest Hills,
and Maripat of East Setauket. Adored grandfather of four.
Visitation Tuesday 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. at the Coster-Heppner Funeral Home,
32470 Main Road, Cutchogue, NY (www.northforkfuneralhome.com)
Mass of Christian Burial Wednesday 10 a.m. St. Patrick Church in Southold. Burial to follow in St. Patrick Cemetery.
Published in Newsday on August 27, 2011
Dad
Some personal history
Mr. Joseph F. Quinn, retired
US corporate executive, Sears, Roebuck & Company, Edu: M.BA, Adelphi U., Baruch-CUNY, Columbia.
Grew up during the Great Depression and worked with dedication to put himself and all four children through college and beyond.
Son of
NYPD Police Lieutenant Detective Joseph F. Quinn Sr. who died on April 25, 1925 at 51-years old - with two letters of valor, leaving a widow and 2-children
(Joseph F., born 1917, and Marie F. born 7-4-1914). "Grandpa" Quinn of the NYPD, died when Dad/Joseph F. Quinn Sr. was only 8 years old.
Grandpa Quinn received an "Inspectors Funeral". If still alive in the year 2011, he would have been 136 years old.
The NYC Police Department Bike squad - began during the administration of Theodore Roosevelt,
when he was chief of NYC Police.
Police Officer Joseph F. Quinn was an early member.
April 1925 Newspaper account
Lieutenant Dectective Joseph Quinn
"A large delegation of members of the police department, including inspectors, lieutenants, and patrolmen, attended the funeral services yesterday of Lieut. Joseph Quinn of the Police Department, in his home, No 79 Ithaca Street, Elmhurst, followed by a solemn requiem mass sung by the Police Glee Club in the Church of St. Bartholomew, Elhmurst. Burial was in Calvary Cemetery. Among those attending the services were Alderman Jeremiah R. O'Leary, John J. Daniels, William Candron, Deputy Chief Inspector Thomas Ryan, Inspector John D. Couglin, Captin Ayers, Lieut. Wm. Hogarty, Mathew Davey, Barney Bleigh, John McMullen, and ex-Lieut. Glaster."
April 1925 - Newspaper article
"Friends Shocked by Quinn's Sudden Death"
"The untimely death last Saturday in St. Vincent's Hospital of Lieut. Joseph F. Quinn, Main Desk, Detective Bureau, came as a profound shock to his legion of friends both within and without the Department. Death followed a weeks time. He is survived by a wife and two small children, who reside at 79 Ithaca Street, Elmhurst, L.I. Lieut. Quinn, affectionately know to thousands as "Joe", joined the department when he was 22 and almost had... past 15 of which were in command (Main Desk) Detectives Bureau. While..Bureau, he was...Second Branch...Honorable Mention...Detectives Commendation for meritorious...he was sixth on...elevation to Captain."
Lieut.Quinn, was in command of the Main Desk, Detectives Bureau,
NYC Police Department Headquarters, elevated at death to Captain.
Theodore Roosevelt was appointed NYC Chief of Police on May 22nd, 1895.
"during the administration of Theodore Roosevelt..."
"...a member of the bicycle squad of the Police Department, which was formed in the Roosevelt administration.
Members of the police force noted for their speed as riders were assigned to wheel their way along Fifth Avenue and the Speedway by the Harlem River and watch for runaways.
Inspector Byron Sackett and Lieutenant Joseph Quinn, who died recently, were members of the squad... in charge of detectives..."
- from April 1925 Newspaper account
NYC historic note: since grandfather JFQ worked at the
NYC-Police Headquarters he was always "on call" and so was among the first people in NYC to get his own home telephone.
NYPD history buffs may be able to see additional artifacts, documents and parts of history, on a selective basis.
A password protected link will be added to this page in the near future.
At the turn of the century the Quinn household was located at 415 East 56th Street (Sutton Place) Manhattan-NYC - in a walk-up building located above the original "Billy's" restaurant
- and was there while it was still a "speakeasy" during prohibition.
The building no longer exists, and "Billy's" itself was physically moved around the corner to
First Avenue and 54th St, where it was owned and operated by the same family until 2006.
JFQ sr, Son of Elizabeth Robinson-Sheehan Quinn.
Nana Quinn was a devoted grandmother and ardent NY Mets fan,
who lived until 1973 to the age of 93-years old. A part of "old New York".
QUINN ABBEY
County Clare, Ireland
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Some personal history
