Frank Miller Collins

1929 - 2000  (71 years)

• Name	Frank Miller Collins
  Born	25 Sep 1929	Fairfield, Jefferson County, Iowa, USA
  Gender	Male
  Died	9 Dec 2000	Silver City, Grant County, New Mexico, USA
  Person ID	I2726	Rossen Genealogy
  Last Modified	12 Aug 2016

  
  

  Father	Ernest Hobart Collins,   b. 18 Nov 1896,   d. 8 Feb 1993  (Age 96 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Mother	Nellie May Miller,   b. 17 May 1903, Plainfield, Bremer County, Iowa, USA ,   d. 25 Jan 1981, Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA  (Age 77 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Family ID	F930	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  News-Register, McMinnville, Oregon, January 6, 2001 Services for former longtime McMinnville resident Frank Miller Collins of Silver City, N.M., were held Dec. 13 in Southwest ESP Center Unitarian Church. Disposition was by cremation. Mr. Collins died Dec. 9, 2000, in his home in Silver City. He was 71. Born Sept. 25, 1929, in Fairfield, Iowa, he was the son of E. Hobart and Nellie Miller Collins. He lived in McMinnville from 1948 to 1995, then moved to Silver City. He graduated from Linfield College in 1952 with a degree in physics. He served in the Army from 1954 to 1956 at White Sands, N.M. He was a physicist with the Linfield Research Institute and Field Emissions Corp. in McMinnville. Later he became a safety engineer with the Oregon Accident Prevention Division. He retired from the state in 1994. He and Nancy J. Myron Nunley were married Sept. 2, 1961, in Gladstone. They later divorced. Mr. Collins was active in Mimbres Masonic Lodge No. 10 and the Unitarian Church. He loved the outdoors, his woods and his pets. Survivors include two children, Greg Collins and Karin Collins, both formerly of McMinnville; and a sister, Alice Collins Musgrove of Sedona, Ariz. Arrangements were under the direction of Bright Funeral Home, Silver City.