Obituaries:  Robert Williams Collier, Sr., Sabine Parish       C-460
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Feb 10, 1961
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net


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Robert Williams Collier, Sr.

  Robert Williams Collier Sr., 68, of Oakdale, died early
Wednesday, Feb. 1, at his home, following a long illness.

  A native of Sabine Parish, where he left a number of close
friends and relatives, he was the retired publisher of the
Oakdale Journal, a weekly, and was a former Oakdale Postmaster.
He was a member of the Lockney Lodge No. 867 A&FM of Lockney,
Tex., was a Past Worthy Patron of the Eastern Star, and Senior
Warden of the Masonic Lodge.

  He was also a veteran of World War I, and was a member of the
Veterans of Foreign Wars, and a charter member of the American
Legion, A. P. Griffith Post No. 56. He came to Oakdale in 1928,
and retired from the Oakdale Journal in 1956.

  Funeral services were held Thursday afternoon in the Ardoin
Funeral Home Chapel, with the Rev. H. T. Sullivan, pastor of the
First Baptist Church, officiating. Burial was in the Oakdale
Cemetery, with Masonic graveside services.

  Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Katie Abington Collier of
Oakdale; three daughters, Mrs. Howard Gates, Mrs. Bill Parks of
Oakdale, and Mrs. Kenneth Burgess of Quincy, Fla.; a son, Dr.
Robert Collier of Lake Charles; two sisters, Miss Julia Collier
of Washington, D. C., and Mrs. J. F. Wood of Nixon, Texas; two
brothers, C. H. Collier of Berkeley, Calif., and J. S. Collier of
Reno, Nev.; and six grandchildren.