It is with great sorrow to announce that Pamela Quinn-Grady passed away peacefully Monday May15th, 2023. The family was grateful they were able to surround her with love and celebrate Mother’s Day with her. She was 80 years old.
Born in Boston, Ma to the late Joseph Quinn and Lillian Patricia Symmons Quinn. She grew up in Boston and Milton, Mass. She graduated High School from Fontbonne Academy and then went on to graduate from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design and the Museum School in Boston. She and her husband started their family in Milton where she was an active member of the community and made lifelong friends. She was a member of the Milton Junior
Women’s Club and a substitute art teacher for the Milton School system.
She moved to Manchester by Sea in 1982 with her family where her and her husband Tom owned and operated White Gables Rest Home in Manchester, Ma and Ivy Manor Rest Home in Salem, Ma. She was an active member of the council on Aging and wrote a column called Grey Matters for the Cricket Press. Over the years they converted White Gables into the Columbia Inn, a Lodging and Bed and Breakfast where she spent some of her fondest memories hosting a multitude of guests from all over the world. Making lifelong friends due to her ability to make people feel special and at home. Pam was a notable artist working mostly in pastels. She was a member of the North Shore Arts, Rockport Art, Beverly Art, Manchester by the Sea Art, and the Wolfeboro Art Associations, winning many awards. She and her husband Tom cherished their time spent in the summers in Rocky Neck Art Colony in Gloucester with all their artist friends that they made over the years.
After they retired, they moved to Wolfeboro, NH and renovated a 1775 farmhouse. She continued her love of painting Plein Air in Wolfeboro and surrounding mountains. They moved back to Manchester in 2019.
She leaves behind her husband, Thomas Grady, Her Brother David Quinn, Daughter Jennifer DeCarvalho, Son-in-law Michael DeCarvalho, Granddaughters Kaila DeCarvalho and Mia DeCarvalho, Daughter Gretchen Green and Son-in-law Ted Green, Son Zachary Grady and Wife Renee Grady and Granddaughters, Katerina Grady, Samantha Grady, Jacqueline Grady, Great Grandson James Joseph Ledin and many other extended family members.
She was an amazing wife, mother and friend to all that knew her. She had such a zest for life and loved her family deeply. She was a lover of nature and all animals. She will be sadly missed by so many.
In lieu of flowers the family suggests that donations may be made in Pamela’s memory to the Alzheimer’s Association www.alz.org.
A Celebration of Life in her honor will be announced by her family at a later date.