OBITUARY INFORMATION FROM KELLY'S SISTER, TRACY:

My sister, Kelly Estabrook Collins, passed away on April 5, 2005, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, while on a mini vacation.  She suffered a heart attack at just 43 years of age.  She was a negative retoucher, and was working at Corey Brothers Bakery at the time of her death.    She had lost her husband, Larry, to cancer just a year before in February.  She and Larry had three children.  Tiffany, who graduated from HHS in 2002, and Brown University in 2004.  She currently works as a veterinary assistant at HObart Animal Clinic.  Shannon, who graduated from HHS in 2004, and from the College of Court Reporting in 2006.  She is a CART reporter who helps hearing impaired students earn their college degrees.  Justin, who graduated from HHS in 2005 and works as a union carpenter. 

If you asked Kelly what she wanted to be when she grew up, she would always say " a mom."  I am happy that she got to be that.  She poured herself into being a good mom and was proud of her children.  She would have very much enjoyed her grandson Ty!   I never dreamed when we said good-bye, and she asked me to check in on the "kids" that day, that it would be our last conversation.  I miss her and her death has taught me to make the most of every day!

The picture was originally published in the 1979 HHS Memories yearbook.