Irene Collins

Irene De La Cruz Collins

October 28, 1939 ~ November 30, 2014

Irene De La Cruz Collins, 75, passed away on Sunday, November 30, 2014 at Heritage Park after a long battle with dementia.

She was born on October 28, 1939 in Bingham Canyon, Utah, a daughter of Joseph and Anita Tafoya De La Cruz.

She married Dale K. Collins on July 24, 1974 in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.  He passed away on January 18, 1989.

She graduated from St. Joseph High School and was a member of the Catholic Church.

She retired from Fresenius Medical Center.  She started working there when it was Cutters Laboratory and later Del-Med.

She also was a bartender for the American Legion Post 9, the Lamplite, and the City Club.  While bartending at the City Club she decided to retire from bartending and became the social butterfly, greeting everyone coming into and leaving the City Club.  She had a lot of amazing friends that she loved and considered to be family.  She will be greatly missed.

Surviving are her daughter, Wendy (Howard) Peterson, Roy; two stepdaughters, Cathy Kleeb, South Ogden and Jan (Lynn) Cottle, South Ogden; three grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren.  Also surviving is one sister, Luana Graham, American Falls, Idaho.

She was preceded in death by her husband, parents, one brother, Ed De La Cruz; and two sisters, Carolyn Allen, and Kathy De La Cruz.

Graveside services will be held on Friday, December 5, 2014 at 2 p.m. at Lindquist’s Washington Heights Memorial Park, 4500 Washington Blvd.  Friends may visit family on Friday from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. at Lindquist’s Ogden Mortuary, 3408 Washington Blvd.

We would like to give a special thank you to her nieces, Kathy Steinmetz and Debbie Ross and also the staff at Heritage Park.