The Quinn family provides an enduring thread throughout Bullskin Township Volunteer Fire Company’s history.
In the fire company’s founding days, Beverly Quinn “pestered me to join,” her husband, William “Bud” Quinn recalled on a recent Sunday morning at the organization’s Longanecker Road station.
“She said all my friends and neighbor were involved and I should be too,” Bud, 86, said. “After I did, she said ‘I told you to join, not to marry those guys.’ She’s put up with an awful lot since that time.”
Beverly, like many firefighters’ wives, became a member of the ladies auxiliary.
Two other Quinns were at the station that morning: Bud’s son Rick, 63, a 40-year firefighter, and Rick’s son, Kyle, 38, who joined the fire company in 2000 and has served as chief the past six years.