- Date Of Birth: December 17, 1931
- Date Of Death: July 26, 2020
- State: Colorado
Alexa (nee Collins) age 88, passed peacefully at Balfour at Riverfront Park, Denver, CO on July 26, 2020. Beloved wife of John (Jack) Sulak for 50 years, she is also survived by her daughter Adriana Sulak Bombard, son-in-law, David Bombard and granddaughters Collins Garvick Bombard and Jacqueline Irene Bombard of Edwards, CO.
Alexa was born in Erie, PA to the late Adrian and Frances Collins, and was granddaughter of the late Alexander Jarecki, of Jarecki Manufacturing, and Lucie McBrier Jarecki, the daughter of another of Erie’s prominent families. Alexa was predeceased by her brother Kevin Jarecki Collins.
Alexa attended Mercyhurst High School in Erie and graduated from St. Margaret’s School for Girls (now St. Margaret’s-McTernan) in Waterbury, CT. She earned a BS from Wellesley College in 1954 and attended Katherine Gibbs Secretarial School in New York, NY.
Alexa lived and worked in Erie, San Francisco and Boston, finally settling in Cleveland in 1962, where she married Jack in 1970, had daughter Adriana and spent the majority of her life. She volunteered with the Junior League of Cleveland, the Sierra Club, the Wellesley Club, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Cleveland Botanical Garden, the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, and Laurel School. The Nature Center at Shaker Lakes was the cause to which she dedicated the most of herself for decades. She had a true love of the outdoors, wildlife, and all animals, especially Corgis.
Alexa is fondly remembered as kind, compassionate, generous, and gracious by her family, caregivers and friends, especially Cynthia Bassett. She did her best to take thoughtful care of others, even into her last days. She frequently bemoaned her high school graduation gift of a bible from St Margaret’s that was dedicated to her “constant quiet steadfastness”, but those who knew her will forever cherish her perennial loyalty and devotion to the people, places and causes she loved.
Alexa appreciated funny limericks and wrote some of her own, but one of her most favorite lines is from The Man from Snowy River and Other Verses set in rural Australia by A.B.
