Richard Ernest Quillen Jr., 66, of Silsbee, passed away Friday, December 29, 2023. He was born in Bloomington, Indiana to Lois I. Boreff Quillen and Richard Ernest Quillen Sr.
Funeral service will be at 10 a.m. Friday, January 5 at Broussard’s Mortuary in Silsbee with burial following at Cunningham Cemetery in Silsbee. Visitation will begin at 9 a.m. the day of service at the funeral home. Survivors include his children, Dawn Swarthout and husband Mike of Lumberton, J.C. Gilbert of McRae, Arkansas, Elijah Quillen and wife Brandi of Vidor, Stephen Gilbert and wife Becky of Lumberton, and Amy Jo Quillen of Virginia Beach, Virginia; siblings, Judy McDougle of Indiana, Fred Quillen of Michigan, Joyce Green of Florida, Velma Newsom and husband Paul and Ruth Quillen Roberts, all of North Carolina, Greg Quillen of Silsbee, Harold Quillen of Kentucky, and Randy Quillen and wife Nicole of Silsbee; and 12 grandchildren and 12 great- grandchildren.