Bruce Collie shares message about daughter Devyn Reiley after she was killed in plane crash at air show in Oshkosh, Wisconsin

Two-time Super Bowl winner Bruce Collie has shared a heartbreaking message about his ‘hardworking and respectful’ daughter Devyn Reiley after the 30-year-old was killed in a plane crash.

Devyn and her co-pilot Zach Colliemoreno, 30, died when her WW2-era T-6 Texan plunged into into Lake Winnebago in Wisconsin during the Oshkosh air show on Saturday.

She was the oldest of the former San Francisco 49ers star’s 13 children.

Following the tragedy over the weekend, Collie shared a message written by a family friend on Monday morning.

He prefaced it by writing: ‘From our Friend Amalia Molly Forina. Thank you Molly….’

Devyn Reiley of Guadalupe, Texas, was killed on Saturday when her World War II-era plane plunged into a lake in Wisconsin

Reiley is seen with her father Bruce Collie, a two-time Super Bowl winner

The family friend shared how she met the family when Holly, Collie’s wife, was pregnant with one of Devyn’s siblings.

‘In the last couple years we’ve had friends pass suddenly, [my husband] Joaquin has said “that is how I want to go, fast and doing something I love” … trying to find comfort in that statement,’ she wrote. 

‘I met the Collies when Holly was expecting #12 child of 13. Devyn Reiley was the oldest of the Collie clan. When they moved from the big building to Brewsters, she worked behind the bar with dad, Bruce, and the one I spoke to if Bruce or Holly were unavailable. 

Molly went on to describe how the young woman was a positive presence at the pizza place that Collie opened in Texas after he retired.

‘Always professional, hard working, respectful and with such a beautiful smile. I once complimented Holly on how beautiful their children were, her response, “Thank you Molly, they are kind”. Yes they are,’ she continued.

The family friend also praised Devyn for her many accomplishments at a young age.

‘I remember when Devyn authored her first book, so young and so accomplished. I followed her journey on getting her pilot’s license and marrying the perfect person for her, Hunter, another pilot, and filming her first commercial for Duluth Trading,’ Molly added.

‘With this family, you cannot help but celebrate and share their pride and joy in all their milestones and accomplishments, and now, their heartbreak and loss.

‘As a parent, I cannot imagine the unfathomable loss of a child, as a Christian, I know she is in God’s arms; and I know the Collies have a very strong faith. 

‘Please pray for the Collie and Reiley families, for Hunter and Devyn’s aviator community. Rest in peace beautiful girl.’

Bruce Collie retired from NFL and opened a pizza parlor and brewery in Texas with his wife, with whom he has 13 children

Collie shared a YouTube clip of a commercial by the Duluth Trading Company featuring people they called ‘wayforgers’ that featured Devyn and her love for flying.

Many took to the comments to echo Molly’s admiration for the late Devyn.

One comment read: ‘Gosh I admired her so much!! Her drive to chase her dreams was so incredibly inspiring!’

Another added: ‘Thank you for sharing “her” Commercial. What a very special person she was!’

Collin, a born-again Christian, was an offensive lineman and also played for the Philadelphia Eagles during his career. He played football at the University of Texas at Arlington and was drafted in the fifth round of the 1985 NFL Draft before retiring in 1991.

Devyn became a certified private pilot in 2017 and later co-founded the Texas Warbird Museum with her husband and his family.

They aimed to preserve retired WWII-era military aircraft known as warbirds and to share aviation stories from the Rio Grande Valley.

She also taught at Texas Aviation Academy in New Braunfels from 2018 until it closed earlier this year.

The accomplished pilot met her husband Hunter of three years at the same aviation gathering where she was killed. The couple also married at the yearly event.

They flew off from their wedding in a Vultee B-13 warbird, and their Texas home was decorated with airplanes.

‘We got married during ‘NOshkosh’ so we could celebrate every year at Oshkosh!,’ she wrote on July 26, celebrating their anniversary.

‘Here’s to living and chasing our dreams together for many more years to come with my best friend at my side.’

Reiley was also training to become a commercial air pilot and had been accepted into the Air Force reserves, aiming to fly refuelers.

She was flying a T-6 Texan aircraft when it crashed into the lake.

Brayden Hiebing was fishing on the lake with his grandfather, and told NBC 26 he watched the plane spiral down.

‘I thought they were doing a trick at first,’ said Hiebing.

‘I heard the plane start coming out of the sky, and it started like spinning and I told him, and all of a sudden it just made a big splash.’

Hunter Reiley said his wife was in awe of the Women Airforce Service Pilots, or WASP – a civilian women’s pilot association formed during WWII.

‘All you wanted was to make the wasp proud. You earned your ‘Fifi’ wings,’ he wrote on Facebook.

There was a second deadly plane crash at the airshow on Saturday. 

A helicopter piloted by Alabama-based instructor and engineer Mark Peterson, 69, was hit from below by a gyrocopter and burst into flames.

Both Peterson and his passenger Thomas Volz, 72, of Amelia, Ohio, were killed.