Colleen Rae Milliman Neuwirth, age 94, passed away on Wednesday, May 23, 2018 in Kailua, Hawaii. Colleen was born in 1924 on Red Gate Farm in Bernadotte Township, Nicollet County, sixth in the line of William and Minnie Milliman’s eight daughters. Colleen went to school at District #48, a one-room schoolhouse, through the eighth grade. After graduating from New Ulm High School in 1941, she went to the University of Minnesota School of Nursing in Minneapolis, graduating with a nursing degree in 1946. When World War II finally ended, she married her high school classmate and sweetheart, James Neuwirth of New Ulm, who had served in the Merchant Marine during the war. Colleen worked as a hospital nurse, a private duty nurse and a Head Start nurse while raising four children in South Minneapolis. After she and Jim retired, they moved to Portland, Oregon and enjoyed exploring the Pacific Northwest until Jim’s death in 2002. Colleen then moved to Kailua, Hawaii to live with her grand-nephews John Schamber and Wayne Yoshigai. Colleen was an accomplished quilter, an avid reader, and a prolific journalist who kept diaries chronicling her personal history spanning more than eight decades. She kept in touch with her many friends and relatives by telephone or via the lost art of hand-written letters. Colleen and Jim were enthusiastic travelers and took many trips across the USA, sending postcards from far-flung destinations. Colleen also traveled abroad with her niece Sharon Schamber and her nephews, John and Wayne, and she especially enjoyed her gambling sojourns to Las Vegas with her social group, the Kailua Seniors. She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband Jim, and her seven sisters, Jeanne Oswald, Alice Clobes, Shirley Milliman, Audrey Morgan, Virginia Webster, Bonnie Werner and Betty Clarksean. Colleen is survived by her daughter Patricia Neuwirth of Kanehoe, Hawaii, daughter Eugenie Neuwirth of Minneapolis, Minnesota, daughter Barbara and son-in-law Winston Webb of Camas, Washington, and son Richard Neuwirth of Minneapolis, Minnesota. She leaves four grandchildren, Matthew and Aaron Cotton of Minneapolis, Minnesota, and granddaughter Emma Keener and husband Barry Woslum of Olympia, Washington, and granddaughter Rose Keener of Portland, Oregon, and one great-grandchild, Seamus Keener-Woslum of Olympia, Washington. She is also survived by four generations of nieces and nephews.