Obituary - Robert D. Collins

Retired farmer Robert Collins dies

Robert D. Collins, a retired farmer, died Thursday after suffering a heart attack at his Clarkston home. He was pronounced dead on arrival at Tri-State Memorial Hospital at 2:40 p.m. He was 66.

Collins was born Nov. 29, 1909, at Pullman, to Oscar W. and Agnes Collins. The family farmed near the junction of U.S. highways 195 and 95 south of Uniontown until moving to Pullman in 1918. The family moved to the Thornton area in the early 1930s. Collins married Elsie Fronek at Steptoe Dec. 15, 1935. They returned in 1938 to the family farm south of Uniontown where they farmed until moving to Clarkston in August of 1975. He retired from farming in January, 1975.

He was a member of the Lewiston Elks Lodge, the Colton Grange and the Lewiston Gun Club and was an active golfer. He attended the Clarkston Presbyterian Church.

Survivors in addition to his widow at the family home at 1200 2nd St., are a daughter, Joan Kay Hibbs of Greenacres, Wash.; two sons, Robert of Spokane and Paul of Everett, Wash.; three sisters, Christine Leonard of Sebastovol, Calif., Helen Oldenburg of Oak Harbor, Wash.; and Josephine Tiegs of Thornton; his mother at Spokane and two grandchildren.

The funeral tentatively is set for 10 a.m. Tuesday at Merchant Funeral Home. Burial will be at Colfax Cemetery.

Unknown newspaper, (handwritten date May 27, 1976)
Transcribed by Jill Leonard Nock

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