Extracted from The Salt Lake Tribune (Salt Lake City, UT)
Tuesday, April 11, 2006

Loraine Stacy Collier Barrios
1923 - 2006

``TOGETHER AGAIN'' Loraine Stacy Collier Barrios took her last breath while surrounded by her family on April 7, 2006. She passed away peacefully from respiratory failure at St. Mark's Hospital in Salt Lake City.

Loraine was born in Alexandria, Louisiana, on January 29, 1923, to Avice Peters Collier and Hewett Cullen Collier. Loraine was an only child who grew up ``Eloise style'' in a suite of rooms at the top of the Bentley Hotel in Alexandria. She liked to tell stories about the alligators that a family friend brought her each year. She kept them in the pond of the lobby of the hotel and they often crawled out of the pond and scared the hotel guests. When they were too big for the pond they were given to the local zoo. Another family friend, Governor Huey P. Long, gave Loraine her first doll. Her family, in a rather eccentric southern style, drove to Nieman Marcus in Dallas, Texas, each year to buy Loraine her year's wardrobe. They chose only one color for her clothes each year. The doorman, Fisher, drove her to school each day, and when she was old enough to exert her opinion she had Fisher drop her off a block from school so no one would know she was being escorted to school. She had a very interesting childhood, which helped to create a very feisty and interesting southern lady.

Loraine met Joseph Reyna (Ray) Barrios while he was playing a music job at her father's hotel. They married in 1940 and were married for 54 years before Ray's death in 1994. Loraine was a homemaker who lovingly followed Ray around the country when he was transferred with his job. She proudly raised her two children in Mississippi, Louisiana, California, and Utah. She loved her grandchildren and great-grand-children immensely and enjoyed taking them on numerous family trips.

She attended Louisiana State University, was trained in classical ballet, loved to travel, loved Disneyland and all the national parks, camping, knitting, and crocheting; she served on the board of the YWCA in Ogden, was active in PTA, held numerous positions in St. Joseph's Parish in Ogden, and was a master bridge player.

Loraine has left behind two children and their spouses, Ray Barrios Jr. and his wife Jann Moore Barrios of Salt Lake City; Carole Barrios Lapine and her husband Bob of Ogden; eight grandchildren: Fran Halverson and family, Chantel and Joe Reynolds and family, Jenni Stegen and family, Josef Bruhl, Ed Lapine, Dr. Amy Barrios and Dr. Alex Clark and family, Jill Barrios, and Robyn and Chris Seely, and 11 great-grandchildren.

The family would like to thank the doctors, nurses, and staff at Highland Cove Retirement, St. Joseph Villa (assisted living) and St. Mark's hospital for the excellent care she was given these last few years and last weeks of her life.

Private cremation under the direction of Leavitt's Mortuary in Ogden, Utah. Loraine will be laid to rest in the Mausoleum at Leavitt's Mortuary.

In lieu of flowers please donate to the Ray and Loraine Barrios Music scholarship at Weber State University, PT 404 University Development, Ogden, Utah 84408, attention Barrios Scholarship endowment.

There will be a celebration of Loraine's life for family and close friends held at the home of Bob and Carole Lapine on Friday, April 14, from 6 to 8:00 in the evening. Call Leavitt's Mortuary for directions. Send condolences to the family at www.leavittsmortuary.com.