Etha Clay Quinn

1917 - 2000  (82 years)

• Name	Etha Clay Quinn  [1]
  Born	01 Jun 1917	Ephraim, Sanpete, Utah
  Gender	Female
  Died	26 Jan 2000	Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
  	Our beloved mother, Etha Clay Quinn Burton, passed from us on January 26, 2000, after a brief illness. She had suffered from Alzheimer's Disease for several years and was in residence at Garden Terrace Nursing Home in Salt Lake City, Utah. She is survived by her daughter, Frances, Frances's son, Eric, his wife Kelly and his children, Katie, Lelsy, Eli, and Jacob, and by Frances's daughter, Pamela and her child, Rain. Etha is also survived by her son, Stephen and his wife, Louise, Stephen's son, John and his wife, Caryn and daughter, Rachel and by Stephen's son, Peter and his wife, Jisun and their daughter, Alexis, and son, Justin.Etha was born in Ephraim, Sanpete County, Utah on the first of June 1916 of mixed English, Irish, Danish and Swiss ancestry. She and her three brothers and a sister grew up in a one-room house. On August 14, 1937, Etha married Douglas James Burton from nearby Nephi and the couple moved to San Francisco where Doug worked for the Bank of America. In 1938, they moved to Southern California where David O. Selznick's secretary was instrumental in securing a screen writer assistant's job for Etha at the MGM Studios in Hollywood. There she worked for Walter Reisch, Gene Fowler and Fred Zinnemann on such classic motion pictures as "Ninotchka" (Garbo and Douglas), "Comrade X" (Gable and Lamar) and "That Hamilton Woman" (Oliver and Leigh). The last of those stars to survive, Hedy Lamar, died just one week before Etha. The high-point of Doug and Etha's Hollywood social life was a double date with Howard Hughes and Lana Turner at the opening of Ciro's Nightclub. In 1941, a chronic illness cut short Etha's Hollywood Career and she and Doug moved to the suburbs of Los Angeles where he built a store with his own hands and the financial help of his father. Over the years the store became a shopping center. Doug and Etha retired to a lake at Mission Viejo, California. Shortly before Doug's death, they returned to Utah to be near their grandchildren. Grave-side services will be Saturday, January 29th, 2 p.m., Larkin Sunset Gardens Chapel, 10600 South 1700 East, Sandy, where friends and family may call one hour prior to the services.
  Person ID	I6217	Grow
  Last Modified	6 Feb 2013

  
  

  Father	William Henry Clay Quinn,   b. 23 Sep 1892, Ephraim, Sanpete, Utah ,   d. 27 Nov 1956, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah  (Age 64 years)
  Mother	Mary Louise Bigler,   b. 7 Mar 1891, Mt. Pleasant, Sanpete, Utah ,   d. 1 Jul 1937, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah  (Age 46 years)
  Family ID	F3903	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Douglas James Burton,   b. 3 Oct 1912, Nephi, Utah ,   d. 25 Aug 1994, Lehi, Utah  (Age 81 years)
  Married	14 Aug 1937	San Francisco, San Francisco, California
  Children	1. Stephen Burton   2. Frances Louise Burton
  Last Modified	16 Jun 2012
  Family ID	F821	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Born - 01 Jun 1917 - Ephraim, Sanpete, Utah Married - 14 Aug 1937 - San Francisco, San Francisco, California Died - 26 Jan 2000 - Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah  = Link to Google Earth
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  [S90] Public Member Trees, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2006.Original data - Family trees submitted by Ancestry members.Original data: Family trees submitted by Ancestry members.;), Ancestry Family Trees.