Arthur Shirley Collins was born in Sewell, Chile “The City of Stairs” February 12, 1913 to Helen Isabel Frazee and Arthur Lathrope Collins. Moving to San Francisco, Arthur got a job at McKale’s Service Station and then selling insurance before becoming a surveyor for the City and County of San Francisco, a job he kept the rest of his life. He took care of his mother when his parents split and his father remarried. She died in 1944. He died just after his 56th birthday.
He married Jeannette Ellen Maret, of San Francisco. They had no children and is survived by Jeannette and his older brother Richard Hill Collins.
COLLINS, Arthur S. – In this city, February 19, 1969. Arthur S. Collins, dearly beloved husband of Jeannette E. Collins, devoted brother of Richard H. Collins.
Private funeral services were conducted Friday, February 21, 1969. Interment Holy Cross Cemetery.
W.C. LASSWELL & CO.
San Francisco Examiner and Chronicle, February 23, 1969
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