James Martin Quinlan

GRAND JUNCTION, COLO. ? James Martin Quinlan, 59, Grand Junction, died Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2004, at Veterans Affairs Hospital in Grand Junction, Colo., from cancer. Burial will be in Veterans Affairs Cemetery in Grand Junction.

Mr. Quinlan was born April 2, 1945, in Topeka, Kan., the son of William Martin Jr. and Thelma Louise Worland Quinlan. He attended Blessed Sacrament Elementary School in Wichita, Kan., and graduated from Roosevelt High School in Des Moines, Iowa. He also attended Arizona State University.

He served in the U.S. Army in Vietnam. He worked in construction. He was a member of the Fraternal Order of Eagles.

Survivors include two sisters, Jane M. Watson, Lawrence, Kan., and Jill A. Quinlan, Victor, Idaho; and a brother, Richard W., Lawrence.