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Submitted: 5/18/22 • Approved: 5/19/22 • Last Updated: 5/22/22 • R513922-G0-S3
US Marine Corps
Korea
February 1, 1931-February 6, 1990
*Photo, courtesy of Mary (Coggin) Russell
*Obituary
Boyd A. Collins
Feb. 6, 1990
Boyd A. Collins, 59, of Hereford died Tuesday Feb. 6, 1990 in Sand Lake Hospital at Orlando, Fla.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday in Wesley United Methodist Church with the Rev. Derrel Evins, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in West Park Cemetery by Gililland-Watson Funeral Home.
Mr. Collins was born Feb. 1, 1931, in Atchison, Kan. He married Ellen Walker Dec. 29, 1951. He moved to Hereford in 1960 from El Dorado, Kan. He was a line superintendent for Deaf Smith Electric Cooperative. He was a Marine Corps veteran of the Korean War. He was a Scout Master, having earned a silver beaver. He was also a Mason and a member of Wesley United Methodist Church.
Survivors include his wife; three sons, David Allen Collins of Houston, Danny Lee Collins of Garland, and Dennis Wayne Collins of St. Louis. Mo.; three daughters, Linda Joe Ramackers of Nazareth, Rita Ann Hodges of Dacaville, Calif., and Georgia Mae Riley of Hereford; four brothers, Ed Collins and George Collins, both of West Plains Mo., Harold Collins and Neal Collins both of Arkansas; two sisters, Maggie Surriet of West Plains, Mo., and Virginia Radbury of Calififornia [sic]; and 10 grandchildren.
The family requests memorials be to the Boy Scouts of America, the American Heart Association of to the American Institute for Cancer Research.
(Published in The Hereford Brand, 89th Year, No. 156, Deaf Smith County, Hereford,d Tx., Friday, February 9, 1990, Page 2)
Contributed on 5/18/22 by neldapat
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