Firefighter
Lincoln Quappe
Rescue 2
Laid
to Rest
on September 27th, 2001
All-Star
Father
It
would not be accurate to say that Lincoln Quappé attended every one of
his son's baseball and soccer matches; his job as a firefighter with
Rescue 2 in
Brooklyn required him to work all hours. But he never missed a game, thanks
to the Quappé Broadcasting Service, otherwise known as his wife, Jane. "If
I was at a game and Lincoln was working, I would call and give him the
play by play," she
said.
And when Mr. Quappé, 38, was at home, in Sayville on Long Island, he was all
kid- business — "a true sit-down-on-the-floor- play-G.I.-Joes-play-Barbies-build-Legos-
100-percent kind of dad," Ms. Quappé said. On weekends, taking care of the
children, a son and daughter, often meant nature trips on the boat Mr. Quappé's
stepfather kept behind his house in Brookhaven and pointing out the herons
and egrets and
osprey nestled in the reeds or soaring overhead.
Mr. Quappé, who, like his father, was also a volunteer firefighter in his town,
showed the same devotion to his job as to his family. "Being a firefighter
defined him," Ms. Quappé said. "It was his blood. It was his life. I've said
to many people that if he had to die at such a young age, this is how he would
have wanted
to go." (Legacy.com Article)
Rescue 2 Article
Newsday
Article