Colette Quinlan

Collette Quinlan is the daughter of George Quinlan and Mary Hazel. She married Richard Flores. Their children include Brigette Francene Flores.

Carol “Colette” (Quinlan) Flores second child of George Earl and Mary Hazel was born on August 16, 1934 on a hot summer day in Topeka, Kansas. Colette remembers the snowy cold winters and visiting with her Quinlan and Stapel relatives on their farms. She fondly remembers the smells of the horses and cows and visiting her grandfather Rhine Henry Stapel’s grocery store where her mother and dad had met and fallen in love! Colette attended Holy Names School before moving to Bakersfield in1941and went to Saint Francis grammar school and graduated from Garces Memorial High School where she made friends that she has had for the next seventy plus years. She attended Bakersfield College where she took business courses and then worked for Standard Oil for four years. In 1956 Colette married her “near perfect” husband Richard and subsequently had five beautiful children. Richard was a research chemist and worked for Kaiser Center Technology until he took an early retirement and got his MBA and his real estate license. They opened a Mexican restaurant in 1982 that kept the whole family employed and busy until it’s sale twenty-one years later. Colette is retired and she and Richard have been enjoying some travel and dotes over her eight “Super” grandkids. Colette and Richard do their daily crossword puzzle and Richard does his Sodoku and Colette reads and does embroidery and scrap booking.

Children: Brigette, Marta, Carlos, Susanne (“Susie”), and Daniel (“Dan” “The Kid”)