HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Pauline Collins

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Mrs. Collins

Residence: Girard.

Born: Sept. 19, 1910, in Scottsdale, Pa.

Parents: Jesse and Edna Stoner, deceased.

Sibling: Loretta Stoner Settle, deceased.

Spouse: Walter J. Collins. They were married in 1935 in Wheeling, W.Va. He is deceased.

Children: Sally Collins (Ronald) Snyder of Port St. Lucie, Fla., and Janice Collins (Thomas) Pallante of Girard.

Grandchildren: 9.

Great-grandchildren: 14.

Education: Indiana State Teacher’s College, then received her bachelor’s degree from Youngstown University.

Employment: Teacher at Braceville and McDonald elementary schools. She was a schoolteacher 45 years and began in a rural, one-room schoolhouse in Pennsylvania.

Church membership: Trinity Lutheran Church in Girard.

Club membership: Girard Seniors.

Activities: She enjoyed golf and bowling well into her 90s. Now she plays cards with the Senior Ladies Group.

Celebration: Party at Enzo’s restaurant in Warren with family and friends on Aug. 9. Among those in attendance were her daughters and their husbands, and all her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Guests came from Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina and Florida for the occasion.