Colleen Curtis

Libby “Colleen” (Bolen) Curtis, daughter of the late Herschel Lee and Bonnie Lorraine (Orick) Bolen, was born August 13, 1949, in St. Louis, Missouri. She passed away at her residence in Mansfield, Missouri, on December 4, 2025, at the age of 76.

Colleen lived in several places as a child and was living in the state of Maryland when she graduated from high school. She united in marriage to Byron “Junior” Curtis on January 29, 1972, at the Norwood Baptist Church in Norwood, Missouri. This union was blessed with two sons. Colleen worked for a few years at the shoe factory in Mansfield and at Walmart in Mountain Grove, but always said that her true calling was being a homemaker and a mother. Being the best mother to her boys was very important to her. She was also a seamstress and would sew for people. Colleen loved sewing, traveling, and shopping.

Colleen was a very godly woman, and she loved the Lord dearly. Her advice to everyone was, “Do what God says.” Colleen had attended the Countryside Church of the Nazarene in Norwood for several years.

Colleen was preceded in death by her parents, Herschel and Bonnie Bolen, and one son, Byron “BJ” Curtis.

She is survived by her husband of 53 years, Junior Curtis of the home in Mansfield; one son, Herschel Lee Curtis of Mansfield; one brother, Johnny Lee Bolen and wife, Charla, of Fort Smith, Arkansas; two sisters, Sue Hobbs and husband, Joe, of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, and Nancy Hudson and husband, Preston, of Fort Smith Arkansas; two grandsons, Jack and Luke Curtis; and other family and friends that will miss her very much.