John M. O’Quinn, the successful Houston plaintiffs lawyer who died at age 68 in an automobile accident in Houston on Oct. 29, was called a hero, a devoted friend, a complicated man and a champion of people in need at his funeral on Nov. 4 in Houston.
O’Quinn’s pastor, Rev. Ed Young of Second Baptist Church, asked the more than 2,000 people who attended the funeral to pray for O’Quinn. He described him as a man of “overwhelming contradictions” who fought many battles for himself and others during his life and a “giant who flashed by our lives.”
