BRONXVILLE, N.Y. – Mary (Collins) Daley, 96, died Jan. 25, 2005. She was born May 20, 1908, in Bangor. She was predeceased by her parents, Dr. and Mrs. Michael J. Collins; two brothers and three sisters, Gerard P. Collins, Robert Collins, Elizabeth Collins, Carolyn Collins Dunning and Dorothy Collins Frye. She was the beloved wife of the late Thomas V. Daley, who was the former executive vice president of New York Telephone. Mary was the cherished mother of Elizabeth Gillis Daley, Mary Lucinda Finnegan, Thomas V. Daley Jr. and Cornelius James Daley (Lisa); devoted grandmother of six and great-grandmother of five. Her passion was the dance. In the twenties, she founded the Collins-Clendenning Dance Academy in Bangor. After a successful partnership, she left Bangor to pursue her dance career in New York. During the late twenties and early thirties, she was a principal and a leading instructor at the Arthur Murray Dance Studios in Manhattan just at the time he began to launch his dance studios nationwide. She contributed generously to the Hudson Museum at the University of Maine. She never forgot her beloved state of Maine and as long as she could, she would return to the Mt. Desert region to pass her summers with her family. She will be missed.
MARY (COLLINS) DALEY
