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    • I Am Quando
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    • 99th Reunion (2024)
    • 1926 - Present
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    • In Memoriam
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In memoriam

Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and perpetual light shine upon them. May the souls of all our dear faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. 


LEWIS QUANDER b. 1820 | d. 1864 AMANDA REBECCA BELL QUANDER

LEWIS QUANDER b. 1820 | d. 1864

AMANDA REBECCA BELL QUANDER b. 1848 | d. 1916

CHARLES HENRY QUANDER b. 18?? | d. 1919

JOHN PIERSON QUANDER b. 1845 | d. 1925

ROBERT QUANDER b. 1879 | d. 1942

RICHARD IGNATIUS QUANDER b. 1881 | d. 1953

CHARLES CALVIN QUANDER b. 1875 | d. 1956

CHARLES H. QUANDER d. 1956
NELLIE MAY QUANDER b. 1880 | d. 1961

ALICA CORDELIA SMITH QUANDER b. 1889 | d. 1965

CLARENCE ALOYSIUS QUANDER b. 1886 in Brandywine, MD | d. 1966 in Brentwood, MD

EMMA FRANCIS QUANDER HAWKINS b. 1873 in Maryland | d. 1968 in Brentwood, MD

CLARENCE CLAUDIUS QUANDER, SR. b. 1930 in Brentwood, MD | d. 1969 in Washington, DC

JAMES HENRY QUANDER b. 1882 | d. 1971

JENNIE ELIZABETH THOMAS QUANDER b. 1898 in Washington, DC | d. 1974 in Washington, DC

SADIE CHINN QUANDER b. 1889 | d. 1975  

PETER MERCER QUANDER, SR. b. 1896 | d. 1976

VIVIAN ELIZABETH THOMAS BARNES b. 1920 in Washington, DC | d. 1977 in Washington, DC
JOHN EDWARD QUANDER, SR. b. 1896 | d. 1980

KILONZO M. MASEMBWA b. 1974 in Washington, DC | d. 2000 in Takoma Park, MD
JAMES ROBERT TAYLOR b. 1914 in Washington, DC | d. 2002 in Owensboro, KY 

GLADYS REBECCA QUANDER TANCIL b. 1921 | d. 2002

PHILIP ARCHIE MATTHEWS b. 1933 in Washington, DC | d. 2003 in Washington, DC 

HELEN KATHERINE BAILEY QUANDER b. 1929 in Cheverly, MD | d. 2007 in Landover, MD 

PHYLLIS LORRAINE SUTTON QUANDER b. 1950 in Washington, DC | d. 2008 in Washington, DC

CHARLES JOHNSON QUANDER, SR. b. 1925 | d. 2008

ESTELA ELIZABETH SCHMICK QUANDER b. 1918 in Costa Rica | d. 2011 in Washington, DC

FREDERICK WILLIAM BARNES b. 1920 in Washington, DC | d. 2013 in Washington, DC

JOHN TIMOTHY QUANDER b. 1960 in Washington, DC | d. 2014 in Seat Pleasant, MD

CHRISTINE ANN QUANDER b. 1954 in Charleston, WV | d. 2015 in Washington, DC 

SOLOMON MUNYOKI MASEMBWA, SR. b. 1933 in Mwingi, Kenya | d. 2015 in Mwingi, Kenya

CYNTHIA J. TAYLOR b. 1947 in Baltimore, MD | d. 2018 in Washington, DC

FLORIDA VIRGINIA QUANDER FORD b. 1930 | d. 2019 in Oxon Hill, MD

JOSEPH ALOYSIUS QUANDER, JR. b. 1941 in Washington, DC | d. 2019 in Washington, DC

NELLIE BROOKS QUANDER b. 1930 in Alexandria, VA | d. 2019 in Alexandria, VA

JAMES EDWIN "SUNNY" LESTER, SR. b. 1929 | d. 2019 in Roanoke, VA

D. CYNTHIA QUANDER PETERS b. 1930 in Washington, DC | d. 2019 in Washington, DC

CANARIA BURGESS QUANDER b. 1925 |  d. 2019 in Alexandria, VA

MICHAEL GRIMES b.  | d. 2019

LESSIE VAUGHN QUANDER b. 1914 in Mobile, AL | d. 2020 in Washington, DC

LOUISE QUANDER MASON b.  | d. 2020 in Alexandria, VA

JOSEPH SYLVESTER SIMMONS b. 1946 in Upper Marlboro, MD | d. 2020 in Washington, DC

PAULINE JEFFRIES RICHARDSON b. 1958 | d. 2020 in Columbia, SC

EVELYN ORENA QUANDER RATTLEY b. 1924 | d. 2020

ROBERTA HILDAGARD QUANDER b. 1924 in Alexandria, VA | d. 2020 in Alexandria, VA

NAOMI L. BROOKS b. 1934 in Alexandria, VA  | d. 2020 in Ft Belvoir, VA

SEKILA HOLMES ARGRETT b. 1972 in Madison, MS | d. 2021 in MS

LYNDA MATTHEWS-GORDON b. 1957 | d. 2021 in FL 

MARY JANE “MJ” HEMMINGS b. 1959 in Phoenixville, PA | d. 2021 in Deptford, NJ

BARTRAM "BENNY" TINNELL JACKSON b. 1951 in West Chester, PA | d. 2022 in Tallahassee, FL 



The Great Cloud of Witnesses

We are surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses looking on encouraging us to do the will of the Lord. We must not grow weary doing what is right. As we run with joy the race, we must run with all our might. We must lay all earthly things aside that would hold us down. We must claim the victory if we would win the crown.



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The Quanders: Since 1684, an Enduring African-American Legacy was released on January 29, 2021 and is available for purchase. Written and published by author and family historian, Judge Rohulamin Quander, this is the first detailed, historical account of the internationally known Quander family, one of the oldest documented African American families in the country with a 350 year lineage dating back to colonial Maryland. This new book is the first primary single source encapsulating this fascinating, multi-century story. 

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