CHARLES ARTHUR COLLINS WAS BORN AUGUST 13,1936 IN
SULFER SPRNGS TEXAS TO THE PARENTS OF WILL C COLLINS
AND GLADYS RANDOLF
HE ATTENDED JARVIS COLLEGE ON A FOOTBALL SCOLARSHIP.
HIS PASSIONS WERE READING, GOLF, FISHING, DRAWING,
LISTENING TO JAZZ, OLD WESTERN MOVIES AND WORLD
EVENTS.
AS A YOUNG MAN HE BACAME AS STRONG AND SPPRTIVE
ACTIVIEST IN THE COMMUNITY.
HE WORKED FOR THE CITY OF DALLAS FOR 26 YEARS BEFORE
HIS RETIREMENT
HE FOUND GOD AT AN EARLY AGE, IN HIS LATER YEARS HE
JOINED GREATER NEW ZION BAPTIST CHURCHWHERE HE
BECAME A SERVANT LEADER AS DEACON OF THE CHURCH
WHERE HE WAS RECOGNIZED AS FATHER OF THE YEAR
AT HEAVENS GATES HE WILL BE WELCOMED BY HIS PARENTS,
GRANDPARENTS, BROTHERS AND SISTER AND A HOST OF IN-LAWS WHO PRECEDED HIM IN DEATH
HE IS SURVIED BY
HIS SISTER WILMA ELDRIDGE, FROM HIS FIRST MARRIGE
TO RUTH LEWIS THREE SONS REGINALD(SANITA),
KEVIN(BARBARA), DONOVON(LAURA). ONE DAUGHTER
ANGELA COLLINS TURNER(DARRYL), HE WILL BE CHERISHED
AND REMEBERED BY THE LEGACY OF THIS UNION WHICH
INCLUDES 7 GRANDCHILDREN, 10 GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN,
AND 1GREAT GREAT GRANDCHILD
HE WILL BE ADORED MOST BY HIS LOVING WIFE VELLA OF
43 YEARS AND 4 CHILDREN REGENIA GREEN, MARK HORTON
(LORETTA), PATRICIA GREER, JOYCE WISHARDT (KONRAD), 12
GRANDCHILDREN AND 17 GREATGRANDCHILDREN.
HE WILL BE REMEMBERED BY A HOST OF OTHER FAMILY
MEMBERS AND FRIENDS