She pursued this interest at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts where she served as a volunteer gallery instructor for more than 15 years. She was active in a number of community cultural groups including the Beacon Hill Reading Group, MIT Chorale, Women's Travel Club, Harvard Musical Assocation, and Japanese Culture Group. She enjoyed a project filled life and a host of devoted friends. She was predeceased by her sisters, Ruth Boynton, who died in childhood, and Barbara Boynton Folk, who died in 1995. She is survived by her husband W. V. Quine of Boston, her daughter Margaret Quine McGovern of San Francisco, her son Douglas Boynton Quine of Bethel, Connecticut, and four grandchildren.
Arrangements are private.
But her quiet manner masks a rich and varied life. She is a teacher, an Egyptologist, a traveler, a wife, a mother, a singer and a cryptanalysist. She has accomplished this through quiet self-confidence, a devotion to her interests, and a dose of daring. Many know her from her decade as a teacher at the Beacon Hill Nursery School. Quine grew up in Meriden, Connecticut.