1935
Colleen
2024
Colleen Brodie
July 18, 1935 — March 6, 2024
Mount Vernon, OH
Wanda Colleen Brodie, 88, passed peacefully on March 6, 2024 at the Danbury Senior Living Center in Mt Vernon, OH. Colleen was born on July 18, 1935, in Weldon, AR. She grew up with her extended family in Arkansas, working with them as a migrant crop picker throughout her youth. Colleen was raised by her mother Kee Hazel Stump and step-father Gene Stump.
Colleen was a dedicated and inspired teacher. She worked her way through school, earning her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in education at the University of Illinois. While in school, she met and married the love of her life, Bruce Brodie. Colleen helped raise Bruce’s four daughters from a previous marriage, and they went on to have two more children. Their life together was rich and full, including living and working in Kenya, Egypt, and Zimbabwe and spending time at their wooded property in southern Illinois, fondly dubbed Loch Brodie.
Colleen was fiercely independent, wickedly smart, and unfailingly positive and supportive of her loved ones. She enjoyed reading, birdwatching, gardening, and exercising, and she was a devoted mother and nana. To the end she could be found greeting others with a ready smile and dancing down the halls, but she also had a spunky side, able to give a killer “stink-eye” when it was warranted. As daughter Joyce said, “She had a helluva run, going from a little girl working in the orchards to a woman who traveled the world and knew exceptional love.” Colleen will be missed and fondly remembered by friends and family.
Colleen is survived by her children Robert, Julie, Louise, Charlotte, Joyce and Natalie; sister JoAnn Wells; sister-in-law Elaine Messer, nine grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. In addition to her parents, she is preceded in death by her husband, Bruce, and brother-in-law, Dick Stump. Caretakers and friends at Danbury Senior Living and Hospice are deeply appreciated for their kindness to Colleen and her family.
In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to Gentiva Hospice https://www.gentivahs.com/about/donate/
and Alzheimer’s Foundation.
Memorial tributes can be made at Robertsfuneralhome.com
Colleen was a dedicated and inspired teacher. She worked her way through school, earning her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in education at the University of Illinois. While in school, she met and married the love of her life, Bruce Brodie. Colleen helped raise Bruce’s four daughters from a previous marriage, and they went on to have two more children. Their life together was rich and full, including living and working in Kenya, Egypt, and Zimbabwe and spending time at their wooded property in southern Illinois, fondly dubbed Loch Brodie.
Colleen was fiercely independent, wickedly smart, and unfailingly positive and supportive of her loved ones. She enjoyed reading, birdwatching, gardening, and exercising, and she was a devoted mother and nana. To the end she could be found greeting others with a ready smile and dancing down the halls, but she also had a spunky side, able to give a killer “stink-eye” when it was warranted. As daughter Joyce said, “She had a helluva run, going from a little girl working in the orchards to a woman who traveled the world and knew exceptional love.” Colleen will be missed and fondly remembered by friends and family.
Colleen is survived by her children Robert, Julie, Louise, Charlotte, Joyce and Natalie; sister JoAnn Wells; sister-in-law Elaine Messer, nine grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. In addition to her parents, she is preceded in death by her husband, Bruce, and brother-in-law, Dick Stump. Caretakers and friends at Danbury Senior Living and Hospice are deeply appreciated for their kindness to Colleen and her family.
In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to Gentiva Hospice https://www.gentivahs.com/about/donate/
and Alzheimer’s Foundation.
Memorial tributes can be made at Robertsfuneralhome.com
To order memorial trees or send flowers to the family in memory of Colleen Brodie, please visit our flower store.
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