October 4, 1929 – July 13, 2019

John Quincy Stewart, husband, father, grandfather, great grandfather, great-great grandfather, friend and teacher, passed away on Saturday, July 13, 2019, due to pneumonia and heart failure.

John, a descendant of the pioneer families of Ferns and Carver, was born to John Quincy and Eliza Edith (Ferns) Stewart on October 4, 1929 in the Fern Valley area of Phoenix, Oregon. He and his parents moved to Grants Pass, Oregon, where he attended elementary school and graduated from Grants Pass High School in 1948. He attended Southern Oregon College, graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in Elementary Education in 1952 at which time he began his teaching career at Phoenix Elementary School. John earned his Master of Science in Education degree at Southern Oregon College of Education in 1962. Also in 1962, when the Phoenix and Talent School Districts consolidated John moved to Talent Junior High School, teaching Social Studies there until he retired in 1986. He was considered a great teacher, even by his own children who had him as their teacher in Junior High School.

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