Quinn Brown Soles

COLUMBIA Funeral service for Quinn Brown Soles, 80, will be held 2:00 p.m. Thursday July 9, 2015, at Dunbar Funeral Home, Devine Street Chapel, with entombment in Greenlawn Memorial Park mausoleum. The family will receive friends from 5 until 7:00 p.m. Wednesday, July 8, 2015, at the funeral home. Quinn passed away peacefully at Spartanburg Medical Hospice House on July 5, 2015. Born in Tabor City, N.C., on December 18, 1934, he was the fourth and youngest son of Asa McDuffie Soles and Mollie Grace Gore Soles. He grew up working on his family’s tobacco farm until he was 14, when his family moved to town and opened a general store. He left Tabor City when he was 18 years old and moved to Columbia, where he attended Columbia Commercial College for two years. He then enrolled at the University of South Carolina, where he was a member of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity. After attending USC for two years, he put his studies on hold and enlisted in the U.S. Army and served his country from 1957-1959. After being honorably discharged, he returned to USC where he graduated with a degree in accounting in 1961. In 1962, while out to lunch at the Hitching Post restaurant in Columbia, he laid eyes on Hazel Baker, “the most beautiful girl he had ever seen.” After dating for a few months, they married and had two daughters, Lauri and Carol. Shortly after Carol’s birth in 1966, he went to work for the Small Business Administration in Columbia, where he worked until his retirement in 1992. Quinn and Hazel loved real estate and, during their marriage, bought many unloved homes in the Columbia area, and made them beautiful again. After his retirement, he and Hazel co-owned the Cari Company and Columbia Realty. Quinn was a former longtime member of Kilbourne Park Baptist Church where he served as a Deacon and was active in many of the church’s ministries. At the time of his death, he was a member of Shandon Baptist Church. Quinn was the consummate family man, always putting God and his family first in all his endeavors. His beloved Gamecocks followed closely behind, and he attended virtually every USC home football and basketball game for over 45 years. He was predeceased by the love of his life, his wife of 46 years, Hazel Baker Soles; his parents; brothers, Victor Carroll Soles, Tate Council Soles and Rudolph W. Soles; and beloved nephew, James Vincent Sanchelli. He is survived by his daughters, Lauri Soles Darwin and husband, William Benson “Kip” Darwin, Jr. and Carol Soles Sargeant and husband, Alexander P. “Alex” Sargeant; grandchildren, Lauri Campbell Sargeant, Emily Baker Sargeant, and William Benson “Tripp” Darwin, III; sisters-in-law and brothers-in-law, Charles and Mary Frances Brooks, Harold and Nell Jayroe, and Carolyn and Tom Silvester, and numerous nieces, nephews, great-nieces and great-nephews. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that tax-deductible donations be made to “Mission to the Children,” P.O. Box 525, Middlebourne, WV 26149, a ministry that was very near and dear to Quinn’s heart during his lifetime or Westminster Presbyterian Church Benevolence Fund, 309 Fernwood Drive, Spartanburg, SC 29307.