Death Notes

St. Luke's Magic Valley Medical Center

  Burial Notes

Saint Anne's Catholic Churchyard

  Recorded Events in Her Life

• Her obituary was published in the South Idaho Press as well as the Times-News on 25 May 2010 in Twin Falls, Twin Falls County, Idaho, USA.
  
  Mary Ann Colvin
       A very special woman, our mother, Mary Ann Colvin passed away Friday, May 21, 2010.
       Mom was born July 22, 1919, in St. Paul, Ore., to Urban J. Kirk and Zeta G. McCormick. She was the second of 10 children born to U.J. and Zeta. Her early years were spent helping her parents raise children and chickens on the Twin Oaks Poultry Farm.
       After Mom graduated from St. Paul High School, she attended the University of Portland-St. Vincent's Hospital School of Nursing. She graduated in 1942 with a Bachelor of Science degree in nursing. She married Donald M. Colvin Nov. 18, 1942, in St. Paul. The young couple moved to Echo, Ore., but by 1946, they had moved to the San Francisco Bay area. In the ensuing years, she opened her home to many of her siblings, who followed in her trail from Oregon to California. Mom worked at several medical facilities on the Peninsula, but she eventually entered the relatively new field of industrial nursing as supervisor of nursing for Lockheed Missile and Space Division in Sunnyvale, Calif. She remained at Lockheed until her retirement in 1978.
       Mom was known for her generosity, fondness for gardening, love of the ocean, loyalty to friends, skill in the kitchen and intense love for her husband, children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, siblings, and her many many nieces and nephews. Though she was born in Oregon, nearly all of her adult life was spent in northern California. She lived many years in Mountain View, Calif., but her favorite home was in the small village of La Selva Beach. It was there she spent many hours walking the cool sands of La Selva Beach, trailed by a boisterous menagerie of neighborhood dogs who eagerly waited each afternoon for her daily walk along the beach. Her final years in California were spent in the scenic gold rush town of Columbia. She moved to Twin Falls, Idaho, in 2005 to be near her daughter, -----.
       Mom is survived by her children, ----- ----- and ----- -----; her grandchildren, ----- ----- -----, ----- ----- ----- and ----- ----- -----; and her great-grandchildren, ----- ----- -----, ----- ----- -----, ----- ----- -----, ----- ----- -----, ----- ----- ----- and ----- ----- -----.
       A rosary will be said in Mom's honor at 7 p.m. Tuesday, May 25, in the Great Room at Bridgeview Estates, 1828 Bridgeview Blvd. in Twin Falls, with Deacon John Hurley reciting. A memorial Mass will be said at St. Paul's Catholic Church in St. Paul, Ore., on Sunday, May 30, 2010. Services are under the direction of Reynolds Funeral Chapel in Twin Falls.
       In lieu of flowers, the family suggests donations in her name to the University of Portland. Contributions may be given to funeral chapel staff at the rosary or mailed to Reynolds Funeral Chapel, P.O. Box 1142, Twin Falls, ID 83303. Condolences may be left for the family at www.reynoldschapel.com.

• She was buried at the Saint Anne's Catholic Churchyard in Columbia, Tuolumne County, California, USA about 30 May 2010.