Frank Quatraro, an outside sales rep who worked for Graves Lumber for 68 years–and was the dealer’s salesman of the year in five different decades–died Aug. 29. He was 93.
According to his obituary on the Ciriello and Carr Funeral Homes website, Quatraro was born in Italy on Aug. 8, 1925, and came to America in 1927. He served as a medic in Patton’s Third Army during World War II, came home and earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Akron, and then joined what then was Brown and Graves Lumber in 1950. He stayed there the rest of his life.
ProSales profiled Quatraro in 2015, when he was supposed to have been retired for 28 years but still was out selling regularly for Akron, Ohio-based Graves.
“I don’t put in the long hours I used to, but it still requires a lot of attention to get the job done,” Quatraro told ProSales then. “… It’s still interesting and a good challenge. I’ve never been lower on the sales board than #3 in all the years I’ve been here, but I don’t put my name on the sales board any more. I don’t want to get in the way [of the other salesmen].”
A funeral service will take place Sept. 4.
