Alison Murtaugh LaFortune

ALISON MAUREEN LAFORTUNE NEE (MURTAUGH), 44, BELOVED MOTHER &
DAUGHTER, SISTER & FRIEND, PASSED AWAY AT NW/CENTRAL DUPAGE HOSPITAL
ON DECEMBER 7TH.
ALISON GREW UP IN GLEN ELLYN, IL.,WHERE SHE ATTENDED FOREST GLEN
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, HADLEY JR. HIGH AND GLENBARD WEST HIGH SCHOOL.
SHE ATTENDED THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, CHAMPAIGN, IL, WHERE SHE WAS AN
HONOR STUDENT AND GRADUATED IN 2003 WITH A DEGREE IN EDUCATION.
ALISON WAS A TEACHER AT VISITATION CATHOLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN
ELMHURST, IL UNTIL THE BIRTH OF HER FIRST DAUGHTER. SHE THEN
TRANSITIONED INTO A SUCCESSFUL AND FULFILLING CAREER IN THE CULINARY
ARTS AND AS A WRITER. ALISON WAS KNOWN FOR HER INTELLIGENCE, AND
SENSE OF HUMOR, AND FOR HER GENTLE KINDNESS, SWEET NATURE AND
BEAUTIFUL SMILE.
ALISON IS SURVIVED BY HER DAUGHTERS, ALYSSA AND BRIANNA LAFORTUNE, HER
PARENTS, CHRISTOPHER AND NANCY MURTAUGH, BROTHER, JASON MURTAUGH,
SISTER-IN-LAW, ASHLEY MURTAUGH, NEPHEWS, MAVERICK MURTAUGH, GAVIN
MURTAUGH, FINN MURTAUGH AND NIECE, MACKENZIE MURTAUGH, HER FORMER
HUSBAND, SEAN LAFORTUNE, PARTNER, ALLISON KOLARIK, UNCLE, TERENCE
MURTAUGH, AUNTS, DEBORAH MCDEVITT AND ERICA MURTAUGH, GODPARENTS,
BARRY AND COURTNEY MURTAUGH, AND MANY LOVING COUSINS.
SHE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HER BELOVED BROTHER, COLIN MURTAUGH,
HER GRANDPARENTS, AND MULTIPLE AUNTS & UNCLES.
A GATHERING AND VISITATION WILL BE HELD AT ST. MICHAEL CATHOLIC CHURCH,
310 S. WHEATON AVENUE, WHEATON, ILLINOIS 60187 ON THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18,
FROM 9-10 AM WITH A HOLY MASS TO FOLLOW AT 10 AM. A RECEPTION WILL
FOLLOW THE MASS. BURIAL WILL BE PRIVATE.
IN LIEU OF FLOWERS, DONATIONS MAY BE MADE TO THE SUSAN G. KOMEN BREAST
CANCER FOUNDATION.