Charles A. Quinn, of Suffern, New York, passed away Friday, September 15, at Westchester County Medical Center in Valhalla, New York. He was the beloved husband of Marylou Hofmann Quinn.

Charles A. Quinn (Chuck) was born on Christmas Day, 1946, in Manhattan’s New York Polyclinic Hospital. He was a true World War II baby boomer. He lived in Manhattan’s Hell’s Kitchen for the first five years of his life. His family moved to the Ravenswood Houses in Long Island City Queens in 1951 where he grew up. He is a graduate of Brooklyn Technical High School and Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. In 1972, after completing enrollment in Pratt Institute’s Reserve Officer’s Training Corps (ROTC), Chuck entered the United States Army as a Second Lieutenant, stationed in Georgia and Texas, and serving the bulk of his two-year enlistment in South Korea in the United States Army’s Air Defense Artillery.

In 1976 he ran, unsuccessfully, for the New York State Assembly in the Long Island City District where he lived, as the Republican and Conservative candidate.

In 1979, he started his career in the New York City Court system, as a Uniformed Court Officer, ultimately rising to the level of Chief Clerk in the NYC Housing Court in Manhattan, where he supervised one of the largest municipal housing court systems in the United States. He retired in 2010, after 31 years of service.

In 1981 he married Marylou Hofmann, whom he met while taking advanced courses in public administration at New York University, and they purchased an historic house in Suffern, New York. They were married for 42 years.

Chuck was an avid collector of military memorabilia. He started collecting when he was in high school, purchasing his first firearm, an 1863 civil war musket, for $65.00. He had an almost encyclopedic knowledge of Civil War battles and military leaders, as well as the firearms used by the United States military in every conflict since the Revolutionary War. He was the Treasurer of the West Point Chapter of the Company of Military Historians, an organization dedicated to preserving, discussing and celebrating the history of the United States military.

He is survived by his wife, Marylou, his sister Maryellen Barandy and his brother Jim Quinn, as well as nephews and nieces and great-nephews and great-nieces.

The family asks that, in lieu of flowers, gifts be made to the United Service Organisation (USO), or the Wounded Warrior Project.