Colleen Willey

Visitation will be held from 12-2 p.m. on Monday, March 17, at the Runge Mortuary, followed by a funeral service at 2 p.m. in the mortuary chapel. She will be laid to rest in Davenport Memorial Park Cemetery. Memorials may be made to Robert E. Willey to help with Colleen's final medical expenses.

Colleen was born on January 25, 1932 in Bellville, IL, to Carl and Helen (Lang) Hawthorne. She was married to the love of her life, Robert Willey for 76 years. They were married on September 17, 1948.

Colleen loved to garden and tend to her yard and flowers. She loved to bake and cook meals. She enjoyed gambling, scratcher tickets, junk catalogs to order fun things out of, and especially genealogy and family history, which she spent many years doing. Colleen always loved Christmas, displaying her Christmas tree and Christmas village, and gathering with all her family on Christmas Eve for over many years.

Those left to cherish her memory include her loving husband, Robert Willey of Lynn Center, IL; daughters, Mary Ann (Gary) Beerbower of Moline, IL, Nancy (Stephen) Talik of Coal Valley, IL, and Julie (Wyatt) York of Sherrard, IL; son, Mike Willey of Arizona; grandchildren: Robert (Amy) Lieby of Virginia, MN, Jesse Willey of Minnesota, Emily Mess of LeClaire, IA, Lynn (Jeramy) Hergert of Sherrard, IL, and Marty (Jody) York of Cambridge, IL; along with 8 great grandchildren and 5 great-great grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Carl and Helen Hawthorne; brother, Stanley Hawthorne; and sisters, Elsie Kernana and Hilda Whipka.