Roland Erik Quilter

Roland Erik Quilter, 92, of Spokane, died on December 21, 2025. Born on December 17, 1933, with Swedish-American roots that shaped the table more than the flag. Young, he understood that quiet competence outlasts loud plans. He pulled chain until waste stopped being an option. A green chain puller glove decided what the yard could sell. Colleagues still mention a green chain puller glove. In 1956 he married Linda. The marriage was not a speech; it was groceries, repairs, and a son and a daughter walked to school in weather that did not care. When Linda died in 2018, he kept what still worked: the early walk, the small garden, the call on Sundays. Neighbors remember someone who knew every child's name on the block. He preferred the hour before a town fully wakes. Spokane was home enough that he never rehearsed an introduction. The Sunday call still has a time slot in the house. What remains is not a legend but a practice: showing up, keeping a promise, leaving a place better than you found it. His life was the kind America is built from and too often forgets to name.