Longtime Fair Havenite, Colleen Patricia Winters passed away on Sept. 5 at Jersey Shore University Medical Center following a brief illness. She was 73.
Born in Newark to John and Katherine (Hedigan) Crane, Colleen was raised in Middletown with her nine siblings. There she met and married “the love of her life, John Winters.” The couple moved to Fair Haven in the early 1970’s. There, they “built a life together, worked hard and raised three sons and a daughter.”
Colleen is survived by: her four children, Ryan (Kristen) Winters, of Rumson, Jamie (Courtney) Winters, of Fair Haven, Shawn (Erin) Winters, of Port Monmouth, and Tiffany (Marcus) Onni, of Fair Haven; her nine grandchildren, Caden, Nolan, Kellen, James, John, Emma, Lindsey, Logan and Liam; her sisters, Karen Thompson and Kathleen Brogan; brothers, John and his wife Robin Crane, Kevin Crane and Daniel Crane; and countless nieces and nephews.
She is predeceased by: her parents, John and Katherine Crane; her husband, John Winters; her brother, Thomas Crane; and her sisters, Maureen Appaneal and Eileen O’Leary.
Family and friends may visit on Thursday, Sept. 14, from 4 to 7p.m. at the John E. Day Funeral Home, Red Bank. A mass of christian burial will be celebrated on Friday, Sept. 15, at 10 a.m., at Church of the Nativity, Fair Haven. Burial will follow at Fair View Cemetery in Middletown.
— Edited obituary prepared by family via John E. Day Funeral Home
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