CONSTANCE A. ROWLEY-COLOMBO D.O.

Rowley-Colombo CONSTANCE A., D.O. 54, after a very courageous battle with cancer passed away peacefully surrounded by her loving family at home on September 30, 2014. She was born in West Palm Beach, Florida on September 8, 1960 and was the daughter of the late Pastor, Stewart Kimmel Rowley and Shirley Rowley (Collins). Connie grew up in Ellsworth, Maine, and graduated from Ellsworth High School in 1978. She attended Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts, receiving a Bachelor of Arts in Biology and Latin. Prior to graduating from Medical School in 1988, at the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine in Biddeford, ME, Connie was a research assistant at Jackson Laboratory, ME and Rockefeller University, New York. Dr. Rowley was a Intern at Garden City Osteopathic Hospital, Michigan, before starting her Pediatric Residency at Michigan State University in 1989 and finishing her residency in 1992 at William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, MI. She achieved the Outstanding Private Physician Teaching Award from William Beaumont Pediatric Residents in 1997. Dr. Rowley was on the Pediatric Staff at William Beaumont Hospital and Huron Valley - Sinai Hospital, Commerce Twp., MI. She practiced pediatrics at three practices along with being on staff at four other hospitals prior to opening Pediatric Care Corner, offering "Care from the Heart" in West Bloomfield, MI in 1998. Connie, as she preferred to be called, would explain to friends, "I was Connie well before I became Dr. Rowley," met her soul mate Dan in 1998 and were married on July 22, 2004. Connie enjoyed visiting her family in Maine, reading, baking with her son and vacationing in Michigan. She is survived by her husband, Daniel T. Colombo and son, Nathan D. and dearest sister Carol S. Kloth, husband David P. Kloth of Falmouth, ME along with many nieces, nephews and close friends. A memorial service is scheduled for family and friend's at the Orchard Lake Community Presbyterian Church, 5171 Commerce Rd., Orchard Lake, MI. on Friday, October 10, 2014 at 12:30 p.m. There will be a visitation at the church from 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. At a future date family and friends will be invited to attend a memorial service to be held at the Falmouth Congregational Church, 267 Falmouth Rd, Falmouth, ME, Connie's final resting place. A sincere Heartfelt thank you to Cancer Care Associates, the Beaumont physicians, nurses and staff that treated my wife and best friend with total compassion and care for our last 2 years. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made in Connie's memory to Cancer Care Associates, 3577 W. 13 Mile Rd., Ste. 404, Royal Oak, MI 48073-6769 or to the Beaumont Children's Hospital, Pediatric Oncology - Hematology Ctr., same address, Ste. 101, check's to the Children's Hospital should be made out to "the Michelle Mann Fund."