PHYLLIS BOLTON COLLINS

Phyllis Bolton Collins Died on February 24th, 2010 with her family surrounding her. She succumbed to a long illness. She was born in 1927 in Evanston, Illinois, and attended school there through high school. In 1944 she attended Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri, for two years, and then completed her Bachelor of Science in Business Administration at Shurtleff College in Alton, Illinois. After working in Chicago for a couple of years, she decided to have a change of scene and moved to San Francisco with a friend in 1953. She worked at then Crocker Bank in the Trust Department. She married in 1955 and in 1956 moved to Marin County in Ignacio, where she remained for 38 years and where she raised her two children, John and Rebecca. After 11 years of marriage, it was dissolved. By this time she was a legal secretary, and in about 1983 she commenced on a life of travel when her job would allow it. She traveled to Europe, Egypt, Kenya, New Zealand, Australia, many Mediterranean countries, and many destinations in North and Central America. In addition to traveling, she enjoyed knitting, reading, attending classes at College of Marin, symphonies, plays, and getting together with her friends. She was active at the Universalist Unitarian Congregation in Marin for many years as well as Open End. In amongst all this, she had two grandchildren who were very dear to her Alaina and Clayton. She is survived by her son John Collins and his wife Ruth Collins, her daughter Rebecca Akin and her husband, Erol Akin, her grandchildren, Alaina and Clayton Collins, and her step grandchildren, Falon Barmaki and Chris Simmons. Her mother and father and sister all predeceased her. A Memorial Service is pending. Contact Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Marin for specifics at 415-479-4131