A Gathering for Collin

Please join us to celebrate Collins life!

Sunday January 4th 2009
2pm-5pm

At: Venutis Ristorante & Banquets
2251 W Lake St. Addison, IL 60101(630) 376-1500
Get directions

Please no flowers or gifts....your presence is a gift itself to us!

We will have a memory box if anyone would like to share a written memory or story, a letter to Collin, or perhaps a picture that we might have not seen before, to leave as a keepsake to his family.

If you would like to sign the online guest book, it will be open for another year. The link is below in a previous blog.

An incredible Thank-You to all our friends and family who have provided the love and support we needed in this terrible event, and for the caring and tenderness we are still feeling from everyone!

Steve & Lynn, Alex & Max Taylor,

Todd & Kathleen, Lauren & Michael Wolter

View a Video Montage created by Deena

Here is a link to the montage created by Deena Ghandour: http://www.onetruemedia.com/shared?p=7964b1d5ed7364efc32765&skin_id=701&utm_source=otm&utm_medium=text_url

Link to the Obituary

Here is the link to the obituary that was in the Daily Herald.

http://www.legacy.com/dailyherald/Obituaries.asp?Page=Lifestory&PersonId=121188439

What Happened??

For those who are just hearing this very sad news, I wanted to give a short synopsis of what I know.
Collin had begun his "vacation" on the plane ride down to Ft. Myers. He was going to see friends and family during his week long stay. He had been drinking and taking prescription drugs. This continued thru Tuesday and into Tuesday night. Tuesday evening Collin passed out on a sofa, and with the excessive combination of drugs and alcohol in his system, his system began shutting down. Basically his lungs and then other organs stopped working and he was dead by the morning. The coroner said it was "Pulmonary Edema". It seems that our sons and daughters have a notion of invincibility when it comes to what drugs can do.

Steve

The online guest book

The Fort Myers News Press has created an online guest book for people to leave thoughts on as well.
Here is the link to that book: http://www.legacy.com/dailyherald/GB/GuestbookView.aspx?PersonId=121188439

Service in Ft. Myers

The service for Collin in Ft. Myers Florida will be held at St. Columbkille Church on Iona road at 1pm.
There will be a gathering afterward at the home of his Father and Stepmother Todd & Kathleen Wolter.