A LOCAL ADVOCATE FOR CURRENT AND RETIRED MILITARY PERSONNEL HAS DIED AFTER A LONG BATTLE WITH CANCER. 83 YEAR-OLD PACIFIC GROVE RESIDENT ABEL QUINONES, WHO WAS A DECORATED NAVY VETERAN, HAD MANY CAUSES THAT HE FOUGHT FOR….WITH THE MOST RECENT BEING GETTING A VETERANS CEMETERY BUILT ON THE FORMER FORT ORD. HE WAS ALSO VERY INVOLVED WITH THE COMMUNITY, (INCLUDING BEING A REFEREE FOR LOCAL HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS). QUINONES IS SURVIVED BY HIS SIBLINGS, AND HIS WIFE (JUDY), AS WELL AS HIS CHILDREN, GRANDCHILDREN, AND GREAT GRANDCHILDREN.
JUDY QUINONES SAYS THAT HER HUSBAND’S BODY, WHICH HAS BEEN CREMATED, WILL NOT BE BURIED UNTIL IT CAN BE BURIED AT THE CENTRAL COAST VETERANS CEMETERY ON THE FORMER FORT ORD. TO THAT END, THE FAMILY IS ASKING THAT IN LIEU OF FLOWERS, DONATIONS BE MADE TO THE CEMETERY FOUNDATION, BOX 849, MARINA CALIFORNIA, 93933.
MEMORIAL SERVICES FOR ABEL QUINONES ARE SCHEDULED TO BE HELD THIS COMING SATURDAY, BEGINNING AT 2 P.M. AT THE MONTEREY MASONIC LODGE ON PACIFIC STREET.
