BOMBER MEMORIAL

JUDY LEE "JLee RAY" WARD COLEAN ~ Class of 1966
June 14, 1948 - November 23, 2021

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Judy Lee "JLee Ray" Ward Colean, 73, of Pasco earned her wings on November 23, 2021. She was born on June 14, 1948 in Richland to John R. Ward and Audrey Marie Ward.

Judy "JLee" attended Sacajawea Grade School, Chief Jo Junior High School and graduated with the Class of 1966 from Richland's Columbia High School.

She married John C. "Pete" Colean on May 29, 1979 and lived in the Tri-Cities for fifty years where she worked as a special education teacher.

She loved to spend time with her family.

JLee is survived by her children: Talmurah Olivera, Joelle Jordan, Craig Colean and John Colean; her sisters, Johnann Ward Donley ('60 honorary) and June Ward Steadman ('70 honorary); and her eighteen grandchildren and twenty great grandchildren.

She is preceded in death by her parents; her husband, John "Pete" Colean who passed away October 3, 2016; her son, James Colean; and her granddaughter, Melissa Colean.

There will be a celebration of life date and time to be determined.

One Rose
"One yellow rose, that was all he had - and this stranger he gave it to me.
'And with this rose,' that stranger said, 'To you I'll give my love,'
Just one yellow rose he gave to me, to show his love so true,
I never laughed; but I laughed that day - how could such a thing be true.
But that single rose that he gave to me, did make my dreams come true.
Now the rose is dead but the love lives on - between that stranger and me.
For the rose, and the love, and the stranger - still live - deep inside of me."

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NOTE: Her sister, Johnann ('60 honorary), passed away on May 24, 2022.

Bomber Memorial put together by Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66).