Constance "Connie" Colvin

Connie Colvin, 72, of 1623 Manor Hill Drive, died at 1:45 p.m. Thursday (May 19, 2011) in Blessing Hospital.

Born Oct. 18, 1938, in Macomb, Connie was a daughter of Chester and Mary Weedman Woolsey. She married Donald L. Colvin on Oct. 26, 1957, in Mendon. He survives.

Connie was a 1956 graduate of Unity High School in Mendon and attended MacMurray College in Jacksonville.

A people person who enjoyed entertaining, telling jokes and gourmet cooking, Connie also enjoyed doing landscaping work in her yard and boating at the Lake of the Ozarks and on the river. She was devoted to her family and especially loved spending time with her grandchildren.

Mrs. Colvin was employed at Gardner-Denver for three years and later at Lundeen's Clothiers. In 1990, Connie started her own business as an interior decorator until her retirement in 2007 due to ill health. The family thanks the doctors, nurses and staff members at Blessing Hospital for the tremendous care given to Connie.

Survivors include her husband, Donald; a son, Craig Colvin and his wife, Sandy, of Montpelier, Vt.; a daughter, Callie Grant of Quincy; four grandchildren, Zoe and Willem Colvin, both of Montpelier, and Lauren and Emma Grant, both of Quincy; and a brother, Steve Woolsey of Irvine, Calif.

Mrs. Colvin was preceded in death by her parents.

SERVICES: 1:30 p.m. Monday in the Zehender Robinson Stormer Cookson Funeral Home, with the Chaplain Steve Disseler officiating. Burial will be in Greenmount Cemetery.

VISITATION: 4 to 7 p.m. Sunday and Monday until the time of services at the funeral home.

MEMORIALS: Quincy Humane Society or the Blessing Cancer Center.

ARRANGEMENTS: Zehender Robinson Stormer Cookson Funeral Home.

Condolences may be expressed online at www.whig.com.