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Submitted: 5/26/21 • Approved: 5/29/21 • Last Updated: 6/1/21 • R421854-G0-S3
1916-1950
Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Borger News Herald - May 22, 1950
Funeral services for Bernard Wood Collman were to be held at 4 p.m. today in the chapel of the Minton Funeral Home with Rev. James Glenn, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, officiating.
Casket bearers were Karl Klein, Charles Boyd, Charlie Bailey, J.C. Knowles, Ralph Bayless, Sr., and Bob Bradshaw.
Interment was to be in Highland Park cemetery under the direction of the Minton Funeral Home.
Thirty-three year old Collman and two others were killed instantly in a car-panel truck head-on collision five miles north of Post Friday afternoon.
Collman, a native of Seattle, Washington, served 4 years in the Navy. Prior to the war he owned a boat sales and service agency on the West Coast. In February of this year he became identified with the Womble Oldsmobile Agency in Lubbock.
Survivors include his wife, the former Lorene Grimes; one daughter, Marilyn, 6, one son, Robert 10, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Collman, one sister, Mrs. L. Adkinson and one brother, Bruce Collman, all of Seattle.
The body was brought overland to the Minton Funeral Home Saturday.
Contributed on 5/26/21
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Record #: 421854