Sep 13, 1955 – Apr 25, 1980
Colleen Deborah McCluskey Bartsch, 24, died Thursday in a fire at her home at 117 Folland Lane.
Mrs. Bartsch was born September 13, 1955, in Napa. She attended Redwood Junior High School, graduated from Vintage High School, and attended Napa College. She married James Bartsch September 15, 1979 at Lake Tahoe’s South Shore. She was a former office manager for the Redwood Empire Chapter of the American Heart Association and a former payroll clerk with Stucco Stone, both in Napa.
As a lover of animals, Mrs. Bartsch was involved with several ecological and environmental causes including Greenpeace Foundation.
Survivors include her husband, Jim of American Canyon; her mother, Edith McCoy of Napa; her father, John McCluskey of Ireland; three siblings, all of Napa, Paul B. McCluskey, Eileen Eheler and Kathleen Howard; numerous aunts and uncles; three nieces and one nephew.
Private services for the family were held April 29, 1980 at Treadway & Wigger Funeral Chapel with the Reverend Barbara Thomas officiating.
Inurnment was at Tulocay Mausoleum.