O. Robert “Booty” Quidas died at his home at Wings Landing Farm near Harmony on Tuesday, April 28, 2012. He was 96.
He was born on April 14, 1916 at Wings Landing Farm the son of the late Fred Quidas and Fannie Worm Quidas. He was preceded in death by his wife of over 60 years, Mildred Todd Quidas who died February 24, 2000. He loved to fox hunt and raised and trained many dogs in his life.
He owned Wings Landing Farm at Bell Creek for many years where he grew produce, poultry and grain. He was a commercial fisherman on the Choptank River behind his house and did carpentry including building silo’s.
He is survived by a son, Wayne Quidas and his wife Sharon and a daughter, Connie Q. Eskridge and her husband Webby all of Harmony, five grandchildren, Ryan Quidas, Shawn Quidas, Shayna Quidas, Mark Eskridge and Wendi Eskridge, three great-grandchildren, Isabella Lobato Quidas, Kathleen Eskridge and Kristine Eskridge, one great-great-grandchild Chance Carr, a sister, Ethel Engle and her husband Wilbur of Preston and many nieces and nephews and numerous other family members. He was preceded in death by a brother, Alan Quidas and four sisters, Bertie Plustchak, Josephine Engle, Irene Stanley and Marie Watts.
Funeral services for him will be held at 3:00 p.m. on Saturday, September 1, 2012 at Framptom Funeral Home, P. A. with Rev. David Heistand officiating. Interment will follow in Junior Order Cemetery in Preston. Friends may call at the funeral home on Friday evening from 6:00 to 8:00 and on Saturday from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m.
The family has requested that donations be made in his memory to either Harmony United Methodist Church P. O. Box 145 Preston, MD 21655 or to Preston Volunteer Fire Company Ambulance Squad P. O. Box 44 Preston, MD 21655.
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