Constance Louise Collar

Constance Louise "Connie" Collar, 89, of Fort Wayne, IN, passed away peacefully after saying final goodbyes to her family on June 29, 2025, Connie was born in Fort Wayne Indiana on 27 June 1936, the third child of five to Elbert and Pauline Jones. Connie lived most her life in the Fort Wayne area and attended Central High School. Connie married in 1954 and had two sons, Kim and Keith High. In 1972 she married Franklin Collar and added Frank's two children, Marsha and Stan to her family. Together Connie and Frank founded a successful paper supply company. Connie had a passion for travel and spent time all over Europe, but for her, the best of all was Scotland. Connie was also a big fan of the old black-and-white westerns; Wells Fargo was her favorite.

Connie is survived by her two sons Kim A. High and his wife Kay and Keith S. High and his wife Kim; and her husband of 52 years, Frank Collar. Kim and Kay provided Connie with three grandchildren, Amanda, Michael and Katherine and two great-grandchildren, Arden and Elena. Keith and Kim contributed to the family Connie loved so much with two grandchildren, Ashley and Adam and two more great-grandchildren, Finn and Maggie. Marsha and her husband Tim Coffelt added David to the grandchild mix along with two more great-grandchildren, Evelynn and Izzi, and Stan brought his daughter Natalie into Connie's family fold. Connie was the strong and loving matriarch of not one, but three families- the Jones, when her mother passed suddenly in 1968, along with the Highs, and the Collars. Also surviving Connie are her two younger brothers, Steve Jones and his wife Jane and Tom Jones and his wife Jan. Connie follows her older brother Bill Jones and her older sister Wanda McLeod into the next chapter. Services for Connie will be held at the Greenlawn Funeral Home located at 6750 Covington Rd. Fort Wayne, IN 46804 on Friday, 11 July. The funeral service will be small, as Connie wished, beginning at 2 pm. Friends and family are welcome from noon to 2pm to say goodbye to Connie and congratulate her on a life well lived. To leave online condolences please visit www.GreenlawnMPFH.com.