After a brave and endless 3 year battle with ovarian cancer, Colleen has joined her son Michael in heaven, where they are both now cancer-free side by side.

In these truly impossible times, we ask for your assistance and support for this amazing family who has endured truly too much within such a short amount of time. While Steven is mourning the loss of his son and now his wife all within a month, so is their daughter April who is trying to navigate life without her mother and brother. The truth is, they can't do this alone and need a community to hold them up and remind them they are truly never alone.

Your donation will help cover the funeral expenses for Colleen Gates, any amount is truly appreciated.

We pray, if Colleen could leave you with anything to live on with, it's to live every moment to its fullest and to love with all you have. Colleen was such a light to so many and together with your donation we can lay her to rest with her son as she wished.

If you wish to donate cash/check outside this page, or directly to the cemetery/mortuary please contact Matt Eggleston, President of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul at St. Philip the Apostle and the organizer of this Go Fund Me page.

A Vigil will be held in St. Philip Church on July 5th at 7:00 p.m. The funeral Mass will be held in the Church on July 6th at 10:00 a.m., with the reception to follow in Holy Angel Hall - https://www.youtube.com/live/5uvEgGzM_6s?feature=share