Lela T. "Lee" (Richards) Colvin, 96, of Simsbury, wife of the late Floyd E. Colvin, died Tuesday, February 14, 2023 at the Governor’s House in Simsbury. She was born July 15, 1926 in Livermore Falls, ME, daughter of the late Theodore J. and Theresa Mae (Perkins) Richards and had lived in Suffield, Broad Brook and Fairfield prior to moving to Simsbury a year ago. Mrs. Colvin worked for JC Penney prior to her retirement and had volunteered with the Girl Scouts of America for many years. Lee was an avid knitter having created Scandinavian style sweaters and mittens with impressively intricate patterns. Her artistic talent also carried on with love of painting, particularly scenes from coastal Maine, her home state, as well as working with ceramics. She was also an avid reader, loved feeding and watching birds and was able to fulfill her childhood dream of traveling to Norway to visit a pen pal who she started writing to during World War II.

She is survived by her daughter, Penny Goetjen and husband Kent of Charleston, SC; her daughter-in-law, Sylvia Colvin of Bloomfield; her grandchildren, Kurt Goetjen and wife Deanna of Boston, MA, Austin Goetjen of Orlando, FL, Kelsey Goetjen of Simsbury and Allyson Colvin of West Haven and her nephews, Peter Richards and wife Patti of Canton, ME and Gary Richards of Lake Tahoe. She was predeceased by her son, Kevin S. Colvin; her brothers, Ronald L. Richards and wife Dolores “Dolly” and Arthur N. Richards and wife Beverly and her niece Gale (Richards) Rainwater.

Services will be private. Donations in her memory may be made to the Audubon Puffin Project, 311 Main St, Rockland, ME 04841 or to the First Congregational Church of Bloomfield, 10 Wintonbury Ave, Bloomfield, CT 06002. Please visit Lee’s Book of Memories at www.vincentfuneralhome.com for online tributes.