Donor Legacies
Gift of a Lifetime
Stella Quinn
Stella Quinn spent her retirement years from the Selby Shoe Company living in a small cottage on Offnere Street in Portsmouth, Ohio, where she enjoyed gardening and making friends. Her husband, Robert, purchased this home after good fortune befell them. On May 29, 1975, Mr. Quinn won the Ohio Lotterys Buckeye 300 drawing with a ticket he had purchased at Richard's News. This was a delightful turn of events for a couple that had lived very frugally all their married life. Sadly, Mr. Quinn passed away in 1985 leaving Stella with the responsibility of making final choices for their family. Through the help of her attorney, Stella did just that by creating a will. In her will she also made provisions to give a considerable sum of money to charity. According to one of Stella's relatives, she lived almost seventy years in Portsmouth... "I'm sure she felt that by giving money to the Scioto Foundation, it would be used to help maintain the Portsmouth she so loved." Her gift was the creation of the Stella Quinn Unrestricted Fund. It permits the Scioto Foundation Board to use earnings from the fund to make grants to local charities. Although Stella passed away on Wednesday, March 18, 1992, her bequest to the Scioto Foundation lives on through a permanent endowment fund. To date, numerous charities have benefited from the Stella Quinn Unrestricted Fund as will many more in the future from Stella's gift of a lifetime.
