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Arthur A. Collins was born in Kingfisher, Oklahoma, on September 9, 1909, where his father was in the mortgage investment business of buying and selling land. Art attended Cedar Rapids public schools, Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts in 1927, Coe College in Cedar Rapids for special courses, and the University of Iowa for advanced studies in physics. After leaving Collins Radio in 1972, he formed a new firm, Arthur A. Collins, Inc., based in Dallas, to carry out systems engineering studies in the communications and computer fields.
Art was married to Mary Margaret (Meis), and was formerly married to Margaret (Peg) Van Dyke, who died in 1955. He is survived by four children, Alan, David, Susan and Michael. Arthur A. Collins died on February 25, 1987, at the age of 78, three weeks after suffering a stroke in Dallas, Texas. Arthur Collins is buried in the family plot in Oak Hill Cemetery in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
If you would like to know more about Arthur Collins, read the book "Arthur Collins, Radio Wizard", by Ben W. Stearns. You will not be disappointed. This book is endorsed by the CRA.
David Knepper, W3ST
Secretary to the Collins Radio Association (CRA)
Publisher of the
Collins Journal
CRA station call: W3CRA
Copyright © 2002 David Knepper, W3ST
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