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Life story

"Born in Mt. Clemons, Michigan she lived her childhood in Hudson, Michigan.
She met Claude Reattoire in 1942, just before WWII. When he returned from service, they were married, September 28, 1945.
They resided in Adrian, Michigan, had 1 daughter, Lori. When she found out she was pregnant she quit work to stay home full time to raise her daughter.
They lived in Adrian until 1978, when work transferred Claude to Lockhart, Tx. They remained married until 1990.
In 1992 she married Robert Collins and they were married until 2006, when Robert passed.
In 2006, she and her daughter moved to Warrenton/Culpeper, Virgina where they resided with her granddaughter and son-in-law, and great-granddaughters.
Dementia took her from her family in 2019, when she moved into Brookside until her death in 2023.
Yvonne was loved dearly by all her friends and family.
As we know through thermodynamics, energy cannot be created nor destroyed. It simply changes states. The total amount of energy in an isolated system does not, cannot, change.
Our joy comes from knowing we will all once again be together someday. "