Harold Clinton Collings, an 83 year-old resident of Princeton, died on Monday, Jan. 19, 2004 at his home in Princeton.
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Harold Clinton Collings, an 83 year-old resident of Princeton, died on Monday, Jan. 19, 2004 at his home in Princeton.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2004 at the Princeton United Methodist Church. Pastor Gary Ponder Williams will officiate. Burial will be in the Princeton Cemetery at Princeton.
Visitation is under way at the Greenlee-Middleton Funeral Service in Princeton. A family visitation is scheduled from 7 to 8 o?clock Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2004 at the funeral home.
Mr. Collins was born on Dec. 20, 1920 at the home of his grandparents, south of Princeton, the son of Olin Clinton and Verna McClaran Collings. He attended several Mercer County rural schools and Ravanna High School. He was a veteran of World War II, serving in the Army Field Artillery from Sept. 19, 1942 until Nov. 3, 1945, and was assigned to duty in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and the European Theater. After the war, he raised his family in Mercer County, where he was engaged in livestock farming and was also a carpenter and general contractor. He was a member of the Princeton United Methodist Church, the Princeton Memorial VFW Post No. 7159 and the Ragan-Hickman American Legion Post No. 477 of Mercer.
He wa married on July 12, 1942 in Princeton to Helen Louise Gray, who survives of the home.
Additional survivors include his daughter, Patricia Louise Kloster and her husband, Harold, of Pecatoncia, IL; four grandchildren, Kimberly Stepp and her husband, David, of Abingdon, VA, Stephanie Ann Bolander and her husband, Tim, of Rockton, IL, Gwyn Greenwalt and her husband, Jeff, of Hoffman Estates, IL, and Paul Kauffman of Rockford, IL; seven great-grandchildren, Jared, Jessica and Julie Stepp, Zachariah Bolander and Hannah, Ryan and Karen Greenwalt; four sisters, Helen Riggs and Phyllis Ishmael, both of Princeton, and Margaret Frazee and her husband, Louis, and Norma Hickman and her husband, Clifford, all of Liberty; one brother, Gerald Collings and his wife, Sue, of Princeton; and many other relatives and friends.
He was preceded in death by his parents; and one son, Richard Dale Collings on Sept. 1, 1963.
The family suggests memorial contributions to either the Princeton United Methodist Church or the Princeton Cemetery. They may be mailed to or left at the Greenlee-Middleton Funeral Service at PO Box 316, Princeton, MO 64673.