Ada K. Quigg, active in Taproot here

Ada K. Quigg of Hawthorne Hill Road, who had been circulation director of Foreign Affairs, died Jan. 28, 2005, in Danbury Hospital. She was 82 years old. 

Mrs. Quigg was active in the nonprofit Taproot Workshops & Journal as workshop coordinator, treasurer and business manager, virtually a full-time job. Earlier she worked in New York City at the Slatkin Galleries.

She met her husband, Philip, in 1962 at the Council on Foreign Relations, where she headed the circulation department of Foreign Affairs, of which he was then managing editor. They married in 1967.

She moved with her husband to Ridgefield from Long Island in 1994 to be nearer to her extended family.

Besides her husband, she is survived by a son from a previous marriage, Michael Gennuso, also of Ridgefield, three grandchildren and a great-grandson.