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Marion Collins Remembers was compiled and edited by Tom Collins to celebrate his father's 90th birthday.  Throughout much of his adult life, Marion maintained a journal of sayings and lessons for living a good life.  He wrote in pencil and in longhand in an old green spiral notebook. The pages were ruled and the cover was plastic and the whole thing was three-hole punched.  Some of the sayings and lessons are his own original insights. Others are remembered. Particularly, they were remembered from the days Marion spent growing up around his grandfather, James Wesley Collins.
 

His remembered sayings and lessons for life cannot be separated from the man, Marion Thomas Collins.  They are the core beliefs that reflect his character; a character refined by life experiences and particularly by three major influences on his life: his grandfather preacher, his hard working father, and his practical-minded wife.  Taken together, they provide the recipe for success through work, being a good person and helping others and, finally, holding others accountable for doing the same.   His decision to record these sayings was inspired by the memory of his grandfather and fulfills that remembered saying, "Teach your children and you also teach your grandchildren."

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My Journey was compiled and edited by Martha and Tom Collins to celebrate Alice Elsie Welch Collins’ 90th birthday on August 22, 2009. The story and Journey are hers—told in her words.
 
Of the early days she says “My parents had once owned a farm but most of the time there were sharecroppers.  We moved often—always looking for a better place to farm. The entire family worked in the fields.  It was a hard life.  Her journey takes her from the mud of Louisiana to Memphis, from picking cotton to a lifelong partnership with husband Marion Collins, to Mother of four and then Grandmother and Great Grandmother to many, many more.  There is no doubt that Alice has left a lot out of her story—some because there is no reason to burden others with hurtful things and some because of her modesty.  Alice is a heroine.  She is the person who was always there—who shared home and what could be spared friends and family.  That is her story.  She put it this way, “We shared out home with many folks along the way and always made room for anyone needing a lift in life.”

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