Memorial services for Tate B. Collins Jr., 86, Lawrence, will be at 2 p.m. Monday at Plymouth Congregational Church, Lawrence. Private burial will be at a later date.
Mr. Collins died Thursday, Jan. 10, 2002, at Sterling House, Lawrence. He had been a resident of Lawrence since moving from Naperville, Ill., in 1976.
He was born Jan. 2, 1916, in Trezevant, Tenn., the son of Tate Benton Sr. and Annie Lou (Eades) Collins.
Mr. Collins was a graduate of Kansas State University, Manhattan, with a bachelor's degree in communications and electrical engineering and a master's degree in engineering. He was designated as a distinguished military graduate at KSU. Some of his achievements included: Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth in 1943, European Theater Ribbon with two battle stars from the Northern France and Rhineland Campaigns in 1944 and 1945, and Commanding Officer 3160 Signal Service Battalion. He was a veteran of World War II and retired as a colonel in the U.S. Army.
Mr. Collins worked as a Communications Engineer at Automatic Electric Company, a subsidiary of General Telephone & Electronics. He had worked for the company in California and the Chicago area before retiring in January 1976.
He was a member of the International Association of Electrical & Electronic Engineers and the Lawrence Color Camera Club. He was also a member of Plymouth Congregational Church.
He married June Casebeer on Dec. 22, 1939, in Ashland, Ky. She survives of the home.
Other survivors include two sons, Gary, Bonner Springs, and David, Lawrence; a sister, Ann Matthews, Amarillo, Tex.; and six grandchildren.
The family suggests memorials to Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Assn., or to Plymouth Congregational Church, sent in care of Warren-McElwain Mortuary.
E-mail condolences may be sent to info@warrenmcelwain.com, subject: Collins.
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