Claire Alica Fitzgerald Collins: February 26, 1928, to November 23, 2025, Requiescat in Pace

Sharon's mother, Mrs. Claire Alicia Fitzgerald Collins, who was born in Northport, Long Island, New York, on February 26, 1928, died on Sunday, November 23, 2025, at 5:14 p.m., Eastern Standard Time, in Hurley, New York, at her eldest daughter's house. She was surrounded by each of her six children (John Griffith "Griff" Collins, Alicia Collins, Mark Edward "Deke" Collins and his wife Jill, Kimberly Collins,  Sharon Collins Droleskey, and Bridget April Collins Turpin and her husband Benoit Turpin) and all but two of her ten grandchildren and four of her six great-grandchildren. The Catholics in the family prayed Our Lady's Most Holy Rosary every day for the past five days and then immediately after she was pronounced dead by the home healthcare aides the day after her first-born, Griff, had arrived at her bedside.

Claire Collins is predeceased by her parents, Edward and Marion Fitzgerald, and her brother, Edward Fitzgerald, and her husband, John Griffith Collins III, who was born on June 7, 1924, in Baldwin, Long Island, New York, and died on February 3, 2007, at the Westchester  Medical Center, Valhalla, New York. 

Funeral arrangements are pending. However, is our hope that a Requiem Mass without the body present can be offered by the same priest who administered the Sacrament of Extreme Unction to Claire on Tuesday, November 18, 2025, which was an answer to over twenty-four years of prayers. 

Please pray for the repose of the immortal soul of Claire Alicia Fitzgerald Collins and for the consolation of her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren at this time.