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Colleen Anne (Sullivan) Tuttle

SPRINGFIELD — Colleen Anne (Sullivan) Tuttle, died March 23, 2019.

A wake will be held at the Springfield United Methodist Church, Springfield, March 31, from 6-9 p.m. The memorial service will be held at the Springfield Methodist Church April 1, at 11 a.m., with lunch to immediately follow.

Interment will be at a date to be determined in the Laurel Cemetery, Laurel.

Wife to one, mother to four – plus the multitudes she took under her wing – sister of one, friend to thousands, Colleen had a contagious personality, spreading love, kindness, and positivity to all she met. Colleen was raised in Elgin, where she graduated from

St. Boniface High School. She and her husband of 59 years, Gary, raised four boys, mostly in Norfolk, while she and Gary sold class rings, graduation announcements, and caps and gowns and coordinated fundraising campaigns for schools in Northeast and Eastern Nebraska. Colleen and Gary moved to Riverside Lakes, Waterloo, in the late 1980s, where they were very active in the lake and their church communities and added thousands to their list of lifelong friends. In their later years, Colleen and Gary moved to Springfield, where she served on the library board, volunteered at church, and she and Gary continued to spread love and joy. Colleen was renowned for her cooking: multiple churches, relatives, and friends of her boys often demanded she make her Italian beef, lasagna, biscuits and gravy, fried chicken and coleslaw salad, demands which she would happily indulge. Colleen loved music, particularly Willie Nelson, traveling, and spending time with her family and friends, and shared her husband’s Husker obsession. Colleen continued to work throughout her life; she was extremely proud of her service working for the Red Cross call center in Omaha from its opening until the day it closed. Colleen worked at Hy-Vee up until the time the illness, which would take her physical body, made it impossible.

Colleen left behind a loving husband, four sons, five grandsons, one granddaughter, one brother, and several daughters-in-law, sisters-in-law, nieces, nephews, cousins, and too many friends and admirers to note.

She is preceded in death by her parents and one grandson.

Memorials may be directed to the family at PO Box 272, Springfield, NE 68059.

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