Yvonne Collison

Yvonne Margaret Collison, 85, passed away Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at Hendrick Medical Center, Abilene, TX. 

A funeral service will be held at 2:00 on Sunday, February 23, 2025, at the Hamil Family Funeral Home, 6449 Buffalo Gap Road.

 The daughter of Authur and Eleonora (Seering) Hora, she was born in Iowa City, IA, on May 18, 1939. She lived there until meeting the love of her life, Duane Collison, on a blind date while she was a senior in high school. They were married on May 10, 1959, in Lone Tree, IA.

 Having married an Air Force man, she has traveled to and lived in many places throughout the country, raising four rambunctious boys while also working a variety of jobs. Yvonne was best known for her endless energy, her love of cats, and talent with sewing. She spent many hours in her meticulously arranged home sewing shop producing many blue ribbon winning creations. She has always been a woman of faith and in the years since moving to Abilene, she has both attended an volunteered at the Dyes Air Force Base chapel over her almost three decades of living in Abilene and made many friends in the process. 

If you sit in her sewing room today, you would know Yvonne: photos of her children and grandchildren looking out from every wall; colorful flowers and green plants; warm sunshine through white shaded windows; purposeful clutter all around; partially finished creations - plans for the future. 

Yvonne is survived by her husband Duane, her four sons Ricky, Dale, Roy and Alan, seven grandchildren and 2 great grandchildren.

 Funeral Services will be held on February 23, 2025, at The family will be at the Hamil Family Funeral Home, 6449 Buffalo Gap Road from 2:00 - 3:00 on February 23, 2025, or visitation.