Family/Spouse: Ernest Hobart Collins. Ernest was born on 18 Nov 1896; died on 8 Feb 1993. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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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.