Colleen Virginia Boyer

Colleen Henry Boyer died Thursday, May 9, 2013, after a long battle with breast cancer.Colleen was born September 28, 1943 in Missoula Montana to Wilfred and Virginia Henry. She grew up in Missoula, Montana and graduated from Sacred Heart Academy and the University of Montana in Speech Pathology and Audiology. She was a member of Alpha Phi social sorority. There, she met the love of her life, Edward Boyer.Colleen and Ed were married June 18, 1966. They had two children, James (Jay) Boyer and Michelle (Boyer) Bergman.Colleen and Ed were both very active in cub scouts and boy scouts. Colleen was instrumental in organizing girl scouts in Ft. Madison, Iowa. She was the service unit director and recruited and trained all the leaders. It was a very successful undertaking and is still going strong today.After a number of years working as a Speech Pathologist and Audiologist, she became an agent for New York Life Insurance Company. She worked as an agent until their move to Gillette, Wyoming. She then took a job as an agent for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Wyoming. She did this for many years and then returned as an agent for New York Life. She was a member of Life Underwriters in both Ft. Madison, Iowa and Gillette, Wyoming. She served one term as Secretary-Treasurer and two terms as President. After retiring from New York Life, she did substitute teaching for five years. As she loved children, she enjoyed this very much.Colleen always had a dog and dearly loved all of them. Several of her Brittanys helped her through chemo-therapy. Her last dog, Jazz, was a constant companion and someday, she will meet him again.She is pre-deceased by her father, mother, her sister, Dawn Gorman and her son-in-law, Dan Bergman.She is survived by her husband, Ed, who was always there for her; their son, James Boyer of Homer, AK and his wife, Elise and their two children, Evan and Zane; their daughter, Michelle Bergman of Ferndale, WA and her two children, Henry and Alice.She has been cremated and private family services will be held at their cabin a place in Montana she loved to be. Her remains will be scattered there.In lieu of flowers, Colleen would appreciate memorial donations made to Susan G. Koman for the Cure; PO Box 96216; Washington, DC 20090-6216 or Campbell County Medical Oncology.