Quinton Lafayette "Q.L." Reynolds, 87 years of Carthage, Missouri, a dairyman, departed this life on Wednesday, November 5, 2008. Q.L. was born on March 17, 1921 in Newtonia, Missouri, son of the late Fate and Mary (DePriest) Reynolds. He was raised in the Newtonia area where he attended the Mountain Grove grade school and was a 1938 graduate of Midway High School. He was united in marriage to Louva Christene Relf on August 23, 1942 and to this union two sons and one daughter were born. He worked at Ft. Crowder in the early 1940's. In 1948 he moved his family to Jasper County, Missouri and began his career as a dairy farmer. He was an active member and former Sunday School Teacher at the First Baptist Church in Sarcoxie, Missouri where he had served as deacon since 1959. He was also a board member of the Spring River Baptist Association. He was preceded in death by his parents; his wife of 59 years, Louva Reynolds on March 12, 2001; a brother, Curtis Reynolds; and a sister, Daisy Sanders. On December 11, 2003 he was united in marriage to Margaret G. Shaffer and she survives of the home. Additional survivors include two sons, John Reynolds and wife, Delores and Quinton Reynolds and wife, Donna, both of Carthage, Missouri; a daughter, Sharon Jackson and husband, Larry, of Reeds, Missouri; five grandchildren; three great grandchildren; several nieces and nephews; as well as a host of other family and friends. Funeral services for Q.L. Reynolds are 11:00 a.m. Saturday, November 8, 2008 at the First Baptist Church in Sarcoxie, Missouri with Pastors T.O. Spicer, Sam Wilson and Quinton Davis officiating. Burial will follow in the Newtonia Cemetery. Those honoring his life by serving as pallbearers are Roy Lewis, Bob Cadwell, George Hodge, Kenny Barnes, Richard Bloss and Ivan Cunningham. The family will receive friends on Friday evening from 7-8:00 p.m. in the Housh-Goodwin Funeral Home Chapel in Sarcoxie, Missouri. Memorials are being directed to either the Missouri Baptist Children's Home or Baptist Hill. Arrangements are under the personal care and direction of the Housh-Goodwin Funeral Home in Sarcoxie, Missouri.