Yvette DeLane Wren-Collins, affectionately known to her friends as Wren, was born July 31, 1967 in Chicago, Illinois to her mother, Ag-nes Bass, and father, Lural Wren. Her father, Lural Wren, of Chicago, Illinois, grandmother, Evelina Bass of St. Louis, Missouri, and grand- mother, Jewel Wren of Chicago, Illinois, all preceded her in death.
Education and Career
Yvette started her high school education at Visual and Performing Arts but later transferred and then graduated from Sumner High School with the Class of 1985. She started her collegiate journey at Central Missouri State in Warrensburg, Missouri but completed her college education at Texas Southern University, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts, with a major in psychology in 1993. Yvette later received a certificate in phlebotomy in 2017, and in February of 2019, she became a certified Medication Awareness Recovery Specialist.
She was employed by Places for People of St. Louis, Doorways Inter- faith AIDS Housing and Services, BJC Behavioral Health, The State of Missouri, and lastly, New Seasons, when she relocated to Orlando, Florida, in 2019. Yvette’s career of choice was in social work, with her passion and specialty being in drug counseling, and it was through this occupation that she helped and touched many lives.
Family
Yvette was united in Holy Matrimony to Raymond Collins in 1999, and to this union, Alexa Collins, aka, her “Lambgirl” and also her only child, was born in July of 2000.
Yvette was the youngest of five siblings ~ Angela Roberson, Carolyn Gales (Renard), Cynthia Sowell (Don), Stephen Bass, and Christopher Bass. Yvette was our resident comedian, and if you spent any time around her, you would know she kept her family in tears with her come- dic timing. Yvette was full of life, loved shopping and rocking the latest styles, yet she dedicated the majority of her life to raising Alexa, a task she became an expert in. She had a grand personality, and if you knew anything about her, you knew this could not be missed.
She leaves to treasure her memory: her loving mother, Agnes Bass, one daughter, Alexa Rae Collins, husband, Raymond Collins, all of her siblings, her bonus sibling, aka her niece, Tracee, and a host of other nieces, nephews, cousins, aunts, uncles, and friends who became family.
Her Battle
In July of 2019, our Yvette was diagnosed with Angiosarcoma of the scalp, a rare form of skin cancer, and after a very hard but short battle, she passed suddenly in Orlando, Florida, with her sister, Carolyn, by her side, knowing that her family loved and cherished her.
Homegoing Angels
The family takes comfort in knowing Yvette’s two closest childhood friends, Spen and Lesa, are waiting in Heaven to greet and hold her in their arms.
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