COLLINS, Kathleen S.

(Maiden Name: Riordan)


West Valley View, Avondale, Arizona April 10, 2007 Kathleen S. Collins, 52, of west Phoenix died April 7, 2007. Mrs. Collins was born Aug. 7, 1954, in Farmington, Maine, to Mary and Joseph Riordan. She moved to Arizona in 1977, and worked as a bartender and manager for the Desert Rose in Arlington, Mazonies Lounge in Avondale and Sidekicks in Laveen. Mrs. Collins is survived by one son, Joseph of Phoenix; two sisters, Jane Westberry and Margaret Riordan of Livermore Falls, Maine; and three brothers, Michael Riordan of Boston, Vincent Riordan of Alabama, and Kevin Riordan of Clovis, Calif. A funeral Mass will be celebrated at 2 p.m. today at St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church, 13720 W. Thomas Road in Avondale. Memorials may be sent to the Coronado House Hospice Unit, 340 E. Coronado Road, Phoenix, AZ 85004. Ganley's Buckeye Funeral Home made the arrangements