There passed way at an
early hour last Friday in the person of Quinton H. Fick, one of the best
known and most popular residents of Norfolk. Mr. Fick has been ill for
nearly two months. His trouble at first was typhoid; [...] the fever
left him other complications set in and for five weeks and [...] he was
in a comatose condition. For a long time his friends were cheered by
encouraging reports from his bedside, and all hoped that his fine
constitution would in the end pull him through. This however was not to
be. In the early part of last week pneumonia was added to his other
difficulties and he failed rapidly, dying as before stated at five
o'clock Friday.
The deceased was born at
Port Royal, Walsingham, on March 19th, 1854, the son of John B. Fick, of
that township. He was one of a large family, of whom there survive seven
brothers and two sisters: Lewis, of Forestville, Arthur of Pincouning,
Mich., Samuel of Port Dover, Jerome B. of Simcoe, Ellis of Tillsonburg,
Erwin, of Montana, John R. of Virginia, Mrs. Moore of Barrington, Ill.,
and Mrs. Singer of Howell, Mich.
His widow was Miss Theresa
Duncan, of Vittoria. There were married twenty-five years ago and have
lived every day of it as lovers and chums.
Mr. Fick was a man of initiative
and boundless energy. For a few years past he has been in partnership
with his nephew, A. S. Jackson, in the proprietorship of the Hotel
Melbourne, where he died; but his activities covered many departments of
trade. He was a born "dealer" and was never afraid to tackle
any business proposition. He was at the time of his death the operator
and proprietor of the Hugh Steinhoff lumber mill in Simcoe. As a member
of the firm of Fick, McKnight & Loucks, he was interested largely in
the cutting of timber in various portions of Norfolk. He also owned
considerable real estate.
Norfolk has men whose fame
outside the county is more widely spread than "Tidy" Fick's,
but no man lives to-day whose struggle for life would attract so much
sympathy, whose loss would be so keenly felt by so many people as is
his. His funeral on Sunday was the largest seen in Simcoe in a
generation. The services were conducted by Rev. W. J. Dey, D.D., and
among hundreds of citizens in attendance were large delegations of the
Ancient Order of Workmen and Canadian Home Circle, of both of which
institutions he was a member.
