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Sunday, February 12, 1892 pg. 4 LOCAL CONDENSATIONS Thursday, February 9 - A.R. Collins is seriously ill; he has the"Grippe". The Sunday Gazetteer Sunday February 19, 1892 pg. 4 FUNERAL OF MR. A.R. COLLINS Sunday afternoon of last week, February 12, the remains of A.R. Collins were interred in the family burial lot in Fairview cemetery. A larger concourse of people probably never gathered on a similar occasion in Denison. The order of the procession was: The Denison Rifles in columns of 4, under command of Capt. Fred S. Young; then followed carriaged with pall-bearers; then the hearse, and the 2 local lodges of Knights of Pythias in the same order of march as the Rifles. Mystic Lodge, K. of P., of Sherman, numbering 30 members, and representatives from Greenville, Gainesville and Dallas attended the obsequies. The religious services were conducted at the home of the deceased on Fannin avenue, Rev. Cooper of the North Methodist Church, officiating. The Sunday Gazetteer Sunday, May 23, 1886 pg 6 In this city, on Sunday, May 16, 1886, died Mrs. Lodowiski M. Collins, aged sixty-eight years. She was born in the city of Stafford, in the State of New York, but when ten years old her parents moved to the then frontier territory of Michigan where she grew to womanhood; was educated and fitted for the duties devolving upon her more mature years, having graduated from the Weslyn Female College at Albion, Michigan. In 1847 she married with the Rev.Walter D. Collins who was appointed national superintendent of education for the Cherokee and Choctaw Indians, and accompanied him to the Indian Territory where she engaged actively in the work of teaching. Shortly before the breaking out of the civil war the family returned to Michigan and settled at Ann Arbor where she engaged in school work. While living in Ann Arbor, Mr. Collins died. At the close of the war Mrs. Collins, with her two sons, Alpheus R. and Charles, came to Texas and settled at Collinsville, Grayson county, on a tract of land purchased before the war. Here she opened and taught, at her own expense, the first free school in the State of Texas. In 1877 she accompanied her son Charles to California, where he soon died, when she returned and took up her residence in Denison with Alpheus R., with whom she was living at the time of her death. Mrs. Collins was a woman possessed of a great deal of energy and zeal in the causes of education, temperance, benevolence and Christianity. In all of these enterprises she was a leading spirit, and had at times given direction to the same. A woman of noble impulses and a kind heart, she will be greatly missed by the community. There will be a called meeting Monday night at the Y.M.C.A. to arrange for memorial services in respect to the memory of Mrs. L. M. Collins. The Denison Aid Society, Chatauqua Circle and Women's Christian Temperance Union will participate. Funeral for Mrs. Colliins - News Notes and Personals from the Gate City Special to The News DENISON, May 17 - Mrs. L. M. Collins who died yesterday at 2 p.m. was interred this afternoon in the Fairview Cemetery. Interesting and impressive funeral services were held at the North Methodist Church. Mrs. Collins was the mother of A. R. Collins, a prominent business man of this city, and was highly respected by all who knew her. She was one of the pioneers of Texas and at her death was 68 years old. 
The Denison Press
Friday, January 15, 1960 pg 1 Mrs. W. D. Collins, city booster, dies Funeral services for Mrs. Walter D. Collins were pending at noon Thursday awaiting arrival of the body in Denison. She passed away in a hospital at Austin where she had been only a few days receiving medical attention. She was visiting at the time of her sudden illness, a sister, Mrs. Oscar Eckhardt. Mrs. Collins had made her home for more than 30 years with her husband at 724 West Gandy, until his passing some years back when she sold the old home and erected a modern residence at 1506 West Shepard some eight years back. She was one of the most popular and hard working of the friends of a better Denison, taking particular activity in the Little Theatre, which was famous over the state for its talented presentations. In other public activities, until her retirement from active service, she made a decided contribution to the aesthetic life of Denison. Her husband came from an old school of men who made Denison back when her father-in-law, the late A. R. Collins, spent large sums of money personally to bring famous bands to Denison and make in those days the 4th of July a great occasion. Her husband, up to his death won fame as a builder of bank furniture and fixtures and established a business which his grandson, Bill Bauder and father Harry Bauder, son-in-law, took over. The remains will be resting at Bratcher's funeral home pending interment. Her husband who died in 1952 headed the W. D. Collins Bank Fixture company here for more than 50 years. He was the son of A. R. Collins, one of Denison's earliest real estate men and town builders. Mrs. Collins was a member of St. Luke's Episcopal church. Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Harry Bauder of Denison and Mrs. Cecil Dickson of Paeonan Springs, Va; and her sister, Mrs. Eckhardt of Austin.
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