Helen Marie Raynor Shoemaker

 Helen Raynor Shoemaker, 79, of Orange, VA, passed away peacefully in the presence of her children on Sunday, April 9, 2023, at Dogwood Village of Orange. She was born on May 13, 1943, in Albemarle County, to the late, Russell and Margaret Raynor.

She is survived by her daughter, Teresa Thomas (Glenn) of Orange, VA; her son, David Dyer (Donna Lou) of Oak Park, VA; her stepson, Matthew Shoemaker (Elania) of NOVA; her brother, Albert Raynor of Orange, VA; her sisters, Lucille Smith of Orange, VA, and Dorothy Taylor of Greene Co., VA; her sister-in-law, Mary Raynor; her three grandchildren, Colleen Dykstra (Clayton), Emily Lou Dyer, and DJ Dyer; two great-grandchildren, Knox Dyer, and Kove Dyer; her first husband & dear friend, John L. Dyer; and numerous nieces, nephews, family, and friends.

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, William Crenshaw Shoemaker; her brothers, David Raynor, James Raynor, and Richard Raynor and his wife Betty; her sister, Esther Beahm and her husband Thomas; and brothers-in-law, Leonard Smith, and Lieut Taylor.

A Graveside Service will be held on Wednesday, April 12, 2023, at 11 a.m. at Graham Cemetery with Pastor Wayne Carney officiating.

Memorial donations may be made in her name to the Alzheimer’s Association Central and Western Virginia, 355 Rio Rd W Ste 102 Charlottesville, VA 22901.

An online guestbook is available at www.preddyfuneralhomes.com

Preddy Funeral Home of Orange, VA is handling the arrangements.

ESTER MAE RAYNOR BEAHM 4/01/45-5/18/20

 Esther Mae Beahm, 75, of Culpeper, passed away on Monday, May 18, 2020, at UVA Culpeper Hospital. She was born on April 1, 1945, to the late Russell David Raynor and Margaret Collier Raynor. She was also preceded in death by two brothers, James Raynor and Richard Raynor. She is survived by her husband, Thomas Andrew Beahm; two sons, Thomas Andrew Beahm, Jr. and Eugene Michael Beahm and wife Theresa; brothers, David Raynor and Albert Raynor; sisters, Lucille Smith, Dorothy Taylor, and Helen Shumaker; and grandchildren, Curtis, Joshua, and Caleb Beahm. A memorial service will be held at a later date.

Doris Marie Shifflett Conley 7/14/50-1/26/14

Doris Marie Conley, 63, of Ruckersville passed on Sunday, January 26, 2014 at her home. She was born on July 14, 1950 in Greene County to the late Floyd and Mildred Shifflett. In addition to her parents she is preceded in death by her brothers, George Shifflett, Joe Shifflett, Allen Shifflett, and Ottis Shifflett, sisters, Fannie Shifflett, Mary Shifflett and Margaret McCardell, brother-in-law, John “Hoyt” Collier, step children, Cletus Conley and Lisa Shifflett, grandchild, Manis “Lee” Shifflett III, and her pastor, Elbert Conley. She is survived by her loving husband and caregiver Lester Conley, her children, Clinton Deane and his wife Janet, Wade Deane and his wife Stacy, Marian Bowman and her husband Tressler, Rebecca Shifflett and her husband Wesley, and Melvin Conley and his wife Sharon. Additional survivors include her sisters Sylvia Morris and her husband Ray, Goldie Deane and her husband Lloyd, and Hazel Collier; her grandchildren, Amanda Deane, Kimberly Deane, Brooke Deane, Leighann Shifflett, Betty Easton, Brandon Shifflett, Kendall Shifflett, Chad Conley, Christopher Conley, and Mitchell Conley, 4 great grandchildren, her ex-husband Sherman Deane, her sister-in-law Redie Bortle, and her daughter-in-law Darlene Conley. Doris was a beloved mother, sister and wife who loved to spend time with her family and was a member of Shady Grove Bible Baptist Church. The family would like to thank Bridgett and LaQuanda for their dedication and love shown throughout her illness. The family will receive friends on Tuesday, January 28, 2014 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Ryan Funeral Home, 12819 Spotswood Trail Ruckersville, VA 22968. A funeral service will be held on Wednesday, January 29, 2014 at 11 a.m. at Ryan Funeral Home. Interment will follow at Evergreen Cemetery. In lieu of flowers memorial contributions may be made in her name to Hospice of the Piedmont, 675 Peter Jefferson Hwy Suite 300 Charlottesville, VA 22911 and/or a charity of your choice. An online guestbook is available at www.ryanfuneral.com Ryan Funeral Home of Ruckersville, VA is handling the arrangements.

Haley Dawn Collier 2/7/2001 - 7/15/2014

Haley Dawn Collier Haley Dawn Collier, 13, of Brightwood, went with the angels to be with Jesus on Tuesday, July 15, 2014, in Charlottesville. She was born on February 7, 2001, in Charlottesville. A rising 8th grader at Wetsel Middle School in Madison, Haley was our beautiful, loving, caring, sweet Angel. Her heart and soul was devoted to playing with her sisters on the field for "Blue Ridge Heat" Softball. Haley loved riding her horse Stitch, attending barrel races, hunting with her Daddy and enjoying her young life outdoors. She was preceded in death by her maternal grandfather, Warren E. Morgan; maternal great-grandfather, Reed "Buck" N. Fincham; maternal great-grandfather, W.C. Morgan Jr.; and paternal great-grandparents, Berman and Blanch Collier, and Joe and Robbie Jeffries. She is survived by her parents, Scott Hudson Collier and Nita Dawn Collier; her two brothers, Ryan Hudson Collier and Hunter Jacob Collier; maternal grandmother, Deborah Morgan; paternal grandparents, Amos Hudson Collier Jr. and Nancy J. Collier; maternal great-grandmother, Doris D. Fincham; maternal great-grandmother, Elsie Morgan; uncles, Thomas Morgan, wife, Kate, and their, daughter, Carlee, and Troy Collier, wife, Kelly, and their children, Erica, Austin and Dallas. Her Pops, Warren Lam and wife, Nikki; and "Uncles," Jamie Dawson and John Mulliniks. A funeral service will be held 11 a.m. Tuesday, July 22, 2014, at Preddy Funeral Home Chapel in Madison, conducted by Pastor Adam Meisberger with interment at Bethel Baptist Church Cemetery in Reva. The family will receive friends on Monday, July 21, 2014, from 2 until 4 p.m. and from 6 until 8 p.m. at the funeral home. In lieu of flowers, contributions can be made to "Blue Ridge Heat" Softball in memory of Haley at 185 Lexington Way, Stanardsville, VA 22975; or Madison County Volunteer Fire Company, Inc., P.O. Box 255, Madison, VA 22727.

Roy Shonnon Collier - 12/12/13

Roy Shannon Collier, 51, passed away on Thursday (Dec. 12, 2013.)
He was a member of the Andover church he carried those Christian values throughout his life. He coached little league and umpired junior league sports. He was a loving father, brother, husband, and friend.
He was preceded in death by his parents Bill and Jackie Collier, and his sister Mary Kate Collier.
He is survived by his wife Debra Collier, Son Michael-Shannon Collier, daughter- in- law Amelia Collier, his Aunt ;Willie Mae Turner, two brothers; Rusty Collier, and John Collier, Nephews Tommy Ray( wife) Christa Collier, Jerry (wife) Misty Collier, Great Nephew Jordan Collier, several other close relatives and friends.
A graveside service will be conducted on Friday (Dec. 20, 2013) at the Powell Valley Memorial Gardens at 2:00 p.m. with the Pastor Phillip Bates officiating.
Those wishing to attend the graveside service are asked to meet at Holding Funeral Home at 1:30 to go in procession to Powell Valley Memorial Gardens.
Family and Friends will serve as pallbearers

Sean Allen Collier

Sean Allen COLLIER,  MIT Police Officer, of Somerville, formerly of Wilmington, was killed April 18, 2013 in the line of duty. He was 26.  Allen Collier was the son of Alton Collier of  NH and Kelley (Kelleher) and Joseph Rogers of Wilmington, MA. Grandson of William and Ella (Foley) Kelleher of Woburn, MA. He was brother of Nicole Lynch & her husband Brendan of Dracut, MA; Jennifer Lemmerman & her husband John of Melrose, MA; Robert Rogers of Dedham, MA; Jennifer Rogers of S. Boston and Andrew Collier of Concord, NC. The Police Memorial Service will be held Wednesday at noon in the M.I.T. Athletic Complex, 270 Vassar St., Cambridge, MA. Memorial gifts may be made to the Jimmy Fund, 10 Brookline Place West, FL6, Brookline, MA 02445-9924. Anderson-Bryant Funeral Home 781-438-0135

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"MIT has identified the police officer killed in the line of duty on Thursday evening as Patrol Officer Sean A. Collier, 26, of Somerville, Mass.

Collier had served as a member of the MIT Police since Jan. 9, 2012, following service as a civilian employee with the Somerville Police Department. He was single and a native of Wilmington, Mass.

“Sean was one of these guys who really looked at police work as a calling,” said MIT Police Chief John DiFava. “He was born to be a police officer.”

Collier was shot Thursday evening following an altercation at the corner of Vassar Street and Main Street in Cambridge, roughly between Building 32 (Stata Center) and Building 76 (David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research) on the MIT campus. He was transported to Massachusetts General Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

The MIT Police, Cambridge Police Department and Massachusetts State Police are continuing their investigation of the circumstances surrounding Collier’s death.

“The loss of Officer Collier is deeply painful to the entire MIT community,” MIT President L. Rafael Reif said. “Our thoughts today are with his family, his friends, his colleagues on our police force and, by all accounts, the many other members of our community who knew him. This is a senseless and tragic loss.”

“The MIT Police serve all of us at the Institute with great dignity, honor and dedication,” said Israel Ruiz, MIT’s executive vice president and treasurer. “Everyone here — those who knew Officer Collier, and those who did not — are devastated by the events that transpired on our campus last night. We will never forget the seriousness with which he took his role protecting MIT and those of us who consider it home.”

‘He loved us, and we loved him’

DiFava said Collier was highly involved with MIT’s student population. “In a very short period of time, it was remarkable how engaged he was with students,” DiFava said.

“He wanted to get to know students — he wanted to understand us,” senior Michele Pratusevich said. “And he did it; he knew which students he was protecting every day when he came to work. By getting to know students, by talking to us, by sharing memories with us, by hiking with us, by dancing with us, by listening to music with us, he knew his community. He loved us, and we loved him.”

Maddie Hickman ’11 recalled Collier’s frequent stops by MIT’s student center while on his shift — and his dancing of the Lindy Hop.

“At first, some of the dancers were nervous at the ‘police presence’ in the room, but Sean made friends quickly,” she said. “In the spirit of trying new things, he even started taking swing-dancing lessons in his time off, so he could participate in future dances ‘without being embarrassed,’ as he said.”

‘He truly was an asset to our campus’

Dozens of other students and alumni who met Collier in his 15 months at MIT described him as “dedicated,” “cheerful,” “personable,” “charming” and “kind.” Many encountered him through his involvement with MIT-EMS, the Institute’s ambulance service — which transported the wounded officer to Massachusetts General Hospital last evening.

“Many on campus knew him because he was just so friendly,” junior Max Tang recalled. “I had known of him for many months before having the pleasure of meeting him. … He was always smiling, always had a funny story to tell, and he would always remember what I was up to last time we spoke and would ask about it. … He truly was an asset to our campus.”

“He inherently cared about this campus, and the people in this community,” Lawrence Wong, a graduate student in aerospace engineering, said. Sophomore David Hou described Collier as “a friendly and down-to-earth kind of guy that you would want to be friends with.”

The young officer, MIT senior Noel Morales said, was a regular presence at student events — and one who would always introduce himself to students, ask their names, and crack jokes. “He was always really fun to hang out with,” Morales said.

‘A joy to be around’

Even students who had only just met Collier felt drawn to him.

“I met Sean just a week ago,” sophomore Jennifer Plotkin said. “After the events at the Marathon on Monday, Sean Facebook-messaged me to tell me that he was glad I was OK. … He was extremely kind, caring and a joy to be around.”

“In the short time I knew him it was obvious that Sean cared deeply about his job, his friends and family, and anyone around him, even if he had just met them,” MIT-EMS member Kat Goldsmith said. “He assisted and protected me even before he knew my name, even going out of his way to follow my all-female squad on calls (even when he knew we could take care of ourselves). That was just the kind of person he was — quick to go out of his way to help others, make a joke and smile.”

‘Never seen a star rise as fast’

Collier was also active with the MIT Outing Club (MITOC), joining students in hiking — especially winter hiking.

“During one hike, we tried to make it ‘retro-MITOC-themed,’ including yodeling,” Pratusevich recalled. “Sean claimed he wasn’t much of a singer, but was one of the first to try his hand at the elusive art of yodeling. Hearing his deep voice crack over those yodels definitely made that hike (we didn't reach the top) one of the more fun hikes I’ve been on. He was eager to strut his plaid flannel, yodel off the sides of a mountain, enjoy eating his chocolate and pepperoni, and be happy and cheerful even with our exceedingly slow pace.”

Others were amazed by Collier’s rapid embrace of winter hiking in New Hampshire’s White Mountains — home to some of the nation’s most brutal weather.

“Sean was a MITOC all-star,” mechanical engineering graduate student Matthew Gilbertson ’08 said. “In my nine years with MITOC, I have never seen a star rise as fast as Sean’s.”

‘An altruist’s heart’

“The thing that impressed me about Sean was how enthusiastically he took the plunge into winter hiking, how quickly he mastered it, and how rapidly he made friends,” Gilbertson added. “Sean’s first big winter hike was in January, and just a few weeks later, he was already climbing Mount Washington in winter — one of the toughest outdoor feats in the eastern United States.”

“He was the kind of person who would willingly offer help, even at inconvenience to himself, without having to be asked,” MITOC member Andrew Ding added. “It’s easy to understand why he became a police officer. He gave me the strong impression he had an altruist’s heart.”

Ding said that a few months ago, he and Collier were involved in a car accident while driving to the White Mountains for a MITOC trip. “Sean was the first out of our car to go check and see if the [other driver] was OK,” Ding said. “It would be exceedingly difficult to imagine him not stepping up and doing the right thing when he had the chance, which unfortunately he did last night.”

Collier’s family has requested that gifts in his memory go to The Jimmy Fund. "
(source: Steve Bradt, MIT News Office)

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Hugh Billy Collier 8/31/31-9/10/12

Hugh Billy Collier Hugh Billy Collier, (Bill), 81, of Stanardsville, passed away Monday, September 10, 2012, at The Harbor at Renaissance in Stanardsville. He was born August 31, 1931, in Barboursville, Virginia, to the late Boggie and Mamie Morris Collier. He is survived by two sisters; Lucille Walls of Fredericksburg and Betty and husband John Herndon of Barboursville, and three brothers; Molay (Buck) and wife Minnie Collier, Herbert and wife Frances Collier, and William (Poo) and wife Linda Collier, all of Barboursville. He was preceded in death by brother-in-law China Walls. Fifty-nine years ago, he married Willie Jean Monger and together they had three children; a daughter, Patricia Ann who is married to Gary Myers, and sons John Hugh (Butch) and Robert Wade Collier, all of Stanardsville. Bill is also survived by eleven grand children; Melinda Collier of Stanardsville, Tabatha Myers and husband Paul of Waynesboro, Christie Spencer and husband Albert of Louisa, Heather Daniels and husband Bryan of Madison, Jennifer Flores and husband Able of Juarez, Mx., Sandra Collier and friend Val of Charlottesville, Robert Jr. (Robbie) and fiancé Heather of Stanardsville, Christopher Collier of Gordonsville, Christopher Wolfe of Stanardsville, Travis Wolfe of Locust Grove, and Amber Faith Collier of Stanardsville, and fourteen great grand children. Also he is survived by numerous nieces and nephews. Bill worked a number of years for the Southern Railroad and as a supervisor at the Webster Brick Company of Somerset. He later retired to his life’s second love, full-time farming. Bill loved nature, the land, and tending his cattle. The family will welcome friends at First Bible Baptist Church Map at Ruckersville on Thursday, September 13, 2012 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. A service of remembrance celebrating Bill’s life will be held on Friday, September 14, 2012 at 11 a.m. at First Bible Baptist Church Map with the Reverend James E. Wood presiding. Burial will follow in Elk Run Cemetery, Elkton Map. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests a memorial donation be given to First Bible Baptist Church, PO Box 42, Ruckersville, Virginia 22968. An online guestbook is available at www.ryanfuneral.com

Ryan Funeral Home of Ruckersville, VA is handling the arrangements.

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Michael Wayne Collier 1949-2009

Michael Wayne Collier, 60, of Spotsylvania County died Thursday, April 16, 2009 at Mary Washington Hospital.
Mr. Collier was a native of Spotsylvania and a graduate of Spotsylvania High School. He served in the U.S. Navy and was an Honor Guard member. Mr. Collier retired from the FBI Academy in Quantico as an Electrician. He was a member of Round Oak Baptist Church.
Survivors include his wife of 38 years, Mary Lou Collier; one daughter, Jennifer Rowley and her husband, Jeffrey of Spotsylvania; one son, Kenneth Wayne Collier and his wife, Brennan of Goochland; three granddaughters, Lauren Rowley, Allison Rowley and Aydan Collier Drake; nine brothers; four sisters; and numerous nieces and nephews.
A memorial service will be held at 5:30 p.m. Sunday, April 19 at Covenant Funeral Service, Fredericksburg Chapel with the Rev. Randolph M. Newsome officiating. The family will receive friends following the service until 7 p.m. Interment will be private.
In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to Round Oak Baptist Church, P.O. Box 129, Corbin, VA 22446.

Raynor/Jarrell

Thomas Raynor—married---Judith Jarrell m:1840           Wm Jarrell --married-- -Melinda 
                                                                 

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                   James J Raynor--------------married------------------Laura Warren b: abt1883       

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                                          Russell David Raynor---------married--------- Margaret Loney Collier

Jason Collier September 8, 1977 – October 15, 2005

Atlanta Hawks center Jason Collier died early Saturday morning of an apparent heart attack. He was 28.

Hawks players were notified of Collier's death at 9:30 a.m. Saturday morning before a scheduled workout was cancelled.

Collier, was an American professional basketball player in the NBA.  At death, the 7 ft tall center Collier weighed 250 pounds. He was the first active NBA player to die since Malik Sealy in 2000. Collier led Catholic Central High School of his hometown Springfield, Ohio to the 1996 Ohio State Basketball Championship, for which he was named 1996 Ohio Mr. Basketball. After transferring from Indiana, he completed his college career at Georgia Tech and was drafted by the Milwaukee Bucks with the 15th overall pick of the 2000 NBA Draft. He was traded on draft day to the Houston Rockets in exchange for their pick, Joel Przybilla. He then played for the Rockets and the Atlanta Hawks, averaging 5.6 points per game over his career.

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Susan Collier 10/12/38 - 5/7/11

A born subversive, Susan Collier challenged the rules of mechanical patterning

"For 50 years the work of Susan Collier, who has died of cancer aged 72, patterned houses and garments, haute couture and high streets. The most famous patterns are in every textbook as exemplars of the art, and many readers would recognise their mother's curtains, their aunt's scarf and their wedding-present sheets, but be unaware of the partnership of Collier and her sister Sarah Campbell, who created them. Cloth was Collier's medium, and pattern was the way she told a story, conversed, manifested her philosophy, and entered people's visual memories. When her retrospective exhibition opens at the National theatre later this month, there will be as much of her work on the visitors as on the walls.

She attributed her gifts, including her sensitivity to colour, to her parents: her mother, the actor Patience Collier, who painted Susan's chair the peculiar red and yellow she requested, and gave her paper and brush; and her father, the pharmacologist Harry Collier, who took her on walks to stare hard at nature, spending hours peering at butterfly wings.
Susan was born in Manchester. Wherever they lived, Collier's parents planted flowers, and she was excited by their intense shades. Her formative encounter, aged around five, was with "my lifelong friend Matisse", through a book of reproductions with his name printed in a "fantastic, special blue ink" on its cover. She wanted to be a painter, but "knew I wasn't Matisse". What she could be, she realised when she shopped for fabrics in the department store Derry & Toms, and found them all morose, was a painter of textile designs.
Collier was self-taught, dogsbodying for the freelance designer Pat Albeck and selling her own initial sketches to the scarf brands Richard Allan and Jacq- mar. In 1961, she approached Liberty with a portfolio; if they bought two images, this would be her career. They bought six, and commissioned more.


Matisse for the masses ... Susan Collier's Côte d'Azur print. Photograph: Collier Campbell

As a born subversive, she challenged the rules of mechanical patterning, which from block to roller-cylinder print overorganised design, in what she described as a "plonkity-plonk" manner. Her motto was "cheat the repeat". "I was politically motivated to produce beautiful cloth for the mass market," she said. She enjoyed laundering and ironing too, all part of a textile's life-cycle. She wanted her prints to be painterly, the brushmarks left in – visibly hand-created though mass-produced, not an easy effect to achieve through machines. When you see her art work, gouache creamy as custard, thin brush squiggles all over, you hear the indrawn breath of a printer about to say: "Are you sure you want it done like that?"

Liberty retained her from 1968, her speciality being lively blossoms on Tana cotton lawn. She had married a noted pharmacologist, Andrew Herxheimer, in 1961, and they had small children, so she trained up her younger sister Sarah as an assistant. She helped in school holidays, went to art college, and joined her at Liberty in 1968. As the firm approached its centenary in 1975, its prints on natural fibres were perfect for a time when printed cloth was the fashion, summers of flowers and winters of paisleys. Liberty prints had been produced in limited runs, but when Collier took over as company design consultant in 1971, she determined to supply the wholesale quantities wanted for couturiers' new ready-to-wear collections, and do the same for furnishings.

The sisters also formed the independent Collier Campbell (C-C) studio, their eventual escape in 1977 from life within Liberty: Collier was the ebullient partner, seldom seen in less than seven yards of assorted patterns. They were a co-op and did not specify who did what, but a tranquil rendering of a difficult line was probably Campbell's, while a rose with heart and guts would be Collier's. "Pleasure sliding across the eye" was her intent, and you got an eyeful of C-C everywhere for almost two decades. Yves Saint Laurent had bespoken a range for his launch of off-the-peg collections ("we sang and danced painting the sketches"); Jean Muir and John Bates settled for special colourways; London independents (including Jaeger) mixed and did not match patterns; Bill Gibb used a print the wrong way up.
On a sunny day you could spot the bright graphics of the clothes C-C sold by post, through magazine adverts. When fashion tired of distinctive prints, there were furnishing commissions from Habitat, Marks & Spencer's first home collection (1985), and the US bedding giant Martex. The print Côte d'Azur (a window on the Mediterranean, Matisse for the masses) from a 1983 collection that won a Design Council award, was so ubiquitous worldwide that I used to send Collier postcards from far away recording sightings – as curtains above the Arctic circle, a cushion in Kyoto.
The cards went to her Queen Anne house in Clapham Old Town, which she had bought derelict in 1969 – grass was growing in its basement kitchen – and restored, planting a secret garden at the back. She stayed there until the late 90s, when the formerly dozy local pubs attracted young hordes. The last straw was a drunk girl passing out on her front path, wearing less than a metre of mangy cloth. She sold up and made ambitious gardens for two subsequent south London homes.
The world had changed. C-C were textile converters as well as designers, managing the supply of raw greige fabrics and printing processes, a business that toughened brutally with globalisation. Collier never wanted to be a big-name brand, which she felt meant fewer fresh ideas plastered over ever more objects; C-C did open a short-lived boutique in Mayfair, but it was just as the luxury trade was investing in anything but the small, chic shop. Although the business harshened further, there has seldom been a year without fresh C-C designs, and Collier was working fiercely almost until her death on a range to coincide with the half-century exhibition.
Her marriage to Herxheimer, and a later marriage to the broadcaster Frank Delany, ended in divorce. Sarah, her brother, Joe, daughters, Sophie and Charlotte, and grandchildren survive her."

Written by Veronica Horwell

Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/may/15/susan-collier-obituary

Graham Collier 2/21/1937 - 9/9/2011

"Graham Collier and the Celebration Band, at the London Jazz Festival, 2004 Photograph: Allan Titmuss

The jazz composer Graham Collier liked quoting an old friend's description of watching him handle a big band – like someone "directing 14 Jackson Pollocks". Collier, who has died aged 74, was not a monumental composer by the standards of colossi such as Duke Ellington. But if he was a step behind, he was a quietly combative, thoughtful, subtle and often eloquent practitioner, able to write complex, yet richly harmonised and lyrical scores in shifting time-signatures, which nonetheless liberated rather than cramped improvising soloists.

He was also a gifted educator, a polemicist, a critic of the pursuit of ephemeral fashions and the instigator of initiatives that accelerated the independence of jazz in his homeland. The British scene was an also-ran on the world stage when Collier arrived, but it became a big-hitting international contender during his lifetime – and the Tynesider laid down some pioneering markers as part of that change.
Collier was the first Briton to graduate from the jazz course at Berklee College of Music, Boston. In 1968 he became the first composer to receive an Arts Council bursary for a jazz piece, his Workpoints project, at a time when many in the arts establishment thought jazz was a commercial music undeserving of public subsidy. Many British jazz artists have since been funded because of Collier's mix of perseverance, belief, political nous and bolshieness.
He was an influential member of the London-based jazz generation of the late 1960s, fired by a new confidence that contemporary composition could finally be independent of its American models. Collier also initiated a jazz course at the Royal Academy of Music in London, and was the conservatoire's first jazz director and subsequently professor, from 1986 until his retirement in 1999.
He is perhaps best known, however, for running a workshop for unknown young musicians, including the pianist Django Bates and saxophonist Iain Ballamy, in London in 1984, from which sprang Loose Tubes, one of the most creative and influential jazz orchestras founded in Britain.

Collier was born in Tynemouth, Tyne and Wear. He played the trumpet and then double bass with an army band from 1954, serving for three years in Hong Kong. In 1961 he won a scholarship funded by the American jazz magazine DownBeat, attending Berklee under the inspirational composition teacher Herb Pomeroy. On graduation in 1963, he toured the US as a bassist with Jimmy Dorsey's swing band before returning to Britain to found the first version of an ensemble devoted to his own compositions, Graham Collier Music.

The group was to change regularly, in size and personnel, but it included some of the finest soloists on the London scene of the mid-60s, including John Dankworth's sideman Kenny Wheeler, the young Barbadian trumpeter Harry Beckett (who was to become a lifelong Collier associate), and Mike Westbrook's sax virtuoso discovery John Surman. Collier's later groups maintained the quality of that first line-up over the years, his bands including the composer/pianist Karl Jenkins, the trombonist and bandleader Mike Gibbs, the saxophonists Art Themen, Chris Biscoe and James Allsopp, and many more.

Collier's early groups made innovative recordings that have become cult classics, including the live sets from 1968 and 1975 issued on the US Cuneiform label under the title Workpoints. These pieces revealed his devotion to Ellington, Mingus and the Miles Davis/Gil Evans bands, but recast in a distinctively European harmonic language, and explored Britain's newly emerging crossovers of jazz and rock. The albums Down Another Road (1969) and Songs for My Father (1970) saw these ingredients mixed increasingly effectively.
Collier's career took a further leap when he was invited to form an international big band for the 1983 Bracknell Jazz Festival, and wrote the evocative and subtly shaded composition Hoarded Dreams. The big-band experience (and a conviction that the UK's jazz renaissance was producing a rising but underused generation of talented newcomers) led Collier to form a workshop orchestra in 1984. Bates and Ballamy were among the first recruits. Though the subsequent emergence of Loose Tubes as a transforming force in European jazz composition was to happen as much in spite of Collier's guidance as because of it, the mentor of these unruly charges had undoubtedly talent-spotted a group with the originality to change, and keep changing, the way jazz sounded.
In the same period, Collier also conceived a new six-year jazz degree course at the Sibelius Institute in Helsinki, along with his initiatives at the Royal Academy of Music. In 1987 he was appointed OBE and two years later participated in the founding of the International Association of Schools of Jazz, serving on its board for the next nine years. In 1994 Collier produced the report Jazz Education in America for a Winston Churchill fellowship, and the findings led to the launch of the educational journal Jazz Changes, with Collier as co-editor.
His international commissions also burgeoned during these years, and he was to compose for the Danish Radio Jazz Orchestra and Germany's NDR Big Band, and for ensembles from saxophone quartets to symphony orchestras. In the mid-1990s, following a BBC commission for the London Jazz Festival, he developed the ad hoc big band the Jazz Ensemble, with a core lineup augmented by guests. It produced two albums, Charles River Fragments (1995) and The Third Colour (1999). Collier's deepening compositional resources also brought him commissions for the theatre, documentary and fiction films, and radio drama – including the acclaimed BBC adaptation of Josef Škvorecký's novella The Bass Saxophone (1989, the winner of a Sony award).
Collier wrote six books including Interaction, Opening Up the Jazz Ensemble (1995) and The Jazz Composer: Moving Music Off the Paper (2009). On leaving the Royal Academy of Music in 1999, he went to live in Ronda in southern Spain, and in 2008 moved with his partner, John Gill, to an island in the Aegean Sea.
When I interviewed him for the Guardian in 1997, Collier commented on that year's composition The Third Colour, which reflected his long fascination with painting and its conceptual implications for music-making. "In abstract painting," he said, "the notion of the 'the third colour' is supposed to represent the connection between the lines. I've been working all my life between what's improvised and what's written, so maybe it's appropriate. I think the nature of improvisation is often misunderstood, inside and outside jazz. To me there are three kinds of improvising. Solo, which is obvious; textural, which is what a rhythm section often does … and structural improvising, which the bandleader or conductor might organise, deciding during the performance to have the band play the sections of the piece in a different order, or play five choruses instead of four, or whatever. What all this amounts to is that as the leader of this kind of band you can seize the moment." It's a sentiment that energised this major enabler of British jazz throughout his life.
Collier is survived by his partner."

• James Graham Collier, composer, born 21 February 1937; died 9 September 2011
written by John Fordham
source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/sep/14/graham-collier-obituary

Elmer Collier 1917-2011

Elmer Collier, 94, of Baltimore, Maryland, formerly of Greene County, Virginia, died on Friday, July 1, 2011.

He was a World War II verteran serving in the United States Army.

He is survived by his wife, June; eight children, eight grandchildren, numerous nieces, and nephews, all of Baltimore, Maryland; and one brother, Norman, of Charlottesville, Virginia.

He was a loving father and grandfather and will surely be missed by all that knew him.

JAMES OSCAR COLLIER 1896-1965

James Oscar Collier, 69,of RFD 2, died today in a Charlottesville hospital. He was a retired farmer. Born in Greene County, he was the son of the late May and Louisa Conley Collier. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Lou Horner Collier; three brothers, Clinton Collier of Eheart, Dewey Collier of Alexandria and William S. Collier of Grottoes; and four sisters, Mrs. Russell Raynor of Ehart, Mrs. William Collier and Mrs. H.B. Frazier, of Charlottesville and Mrs. Chesley Thomas of Louisa. The funeral will be held at 2 p.m. Monday in the Hill and Irving Chapel. Burial will be in Mount Pran Church Cemetery in Albemarle County.

From The Daily Progress, Charlottesville, VA, Sat, Aug. 21, 1965

Patsy Cline 1932-1963

Patsy Cline, the famed county music star was born, Virginia Patterson Hensley.  She was the daughter of Samuel and Hilda Patterson Hensley. Patsy was born September 8, 1932 and married Gerald Cline on March 7, 1953. After they divorced , she married Charlie Dick, who was very influential in her music career. She was killed in an airplane crash in 1963.

Patsy's father was Samuel Lawrence Hensley, who was the son of Solomon Job Hensley and Elizabeth Margaret Shifflett Hensley. After Samuel's first wife Ynona Jones died in 1927, he married Hilda Virginia Patterson, who was Patsy's mother.

Her grandmother, Elizabeth Margaret "Maggie" Shifflett was born on July 2, 1859, and died June 22, 1938. She was the daughter and 12th child of Solomon and Frances Collier Shifflett. Solomon was the youngest child of Stephen and Joanna McDaniel Shifflett. Solomon was born ca. 1818 and died in Rockingham Co., Va. in 1903. He married first, Frances Collier, daughter of Martin and Fannie Marshall Collier, on October 17, 1838 in Greene Co., VA.  Frances died on June 12, 1889 and is buried in the Baugher Family Cemetery in Beldore, Va., near Swift Run Gap. He married second, Matilda Shifflett Atkins, daughter of David and Lucinda Shifflett.

Solomon's father was Stephen Shifflett who was born ca. 1775 and died in Rockingham Co., Va., in 1865. Stephen was apparently born in Orange Co., Va., and moved to Hightop Mountain in the Blueridge Mountains between 1800 and 1810.

Collier/Conley

                                                                                                                                                   Nathaniel Morris----Jane   
Martin Culver Collyer (1760/71-1880)---Mary Williams                               begat                                                   
                   begat  
Preston Collier -Eliza Haney                                        Jackson Morris ------ Sallie                John Conley--Matilda

           begat                                                                               begat                                       

    Casewell Collier-Elizabeth Haney                      Emma J. Morris 2nd wife --- Zachariah Conley Sr

                           begat                                                                                          
                   Manda J. Collier-Hiram Banks Shifflett                                       begat                           

                                                                begat                                                          

James Raynor------Laura Warren            Christian May Collier---------------- Lucy Louisa Conley

                        begat                                 b: June1872              begat                   b: Sept 1884

                                                                                                    

                Russell David Raynor------------------------------------------- Margaret Loney Collier

Siblings: Emmett, Gaines, Lucy, Bessie        Siblings: William, Clint, Oscar , Dewey, Mandy,  Nettie. Blanche, Rose      

Dennis Collier 1930-2011

Dennis Collier, 81, of Ruckersville, Virginia, went to sleep peacefully surrounded by his wife, children and family on Friday, April 1, 2011, at his residence. He was born on March 22, 1930, in Greene County, to the late Clint Collier and Fannie Morris Collier.

Mr. Collier had a deep love for God and his church, Eheart Pentecostal in Barboursville, where he was the pastor for 40 years. He was an amazing gardener who loved the outdoors and enjoyed traveling with his wife. He will always be remembered as a wonderful husband, devoted father and cherished grandfather and great-grandfather.

He is survived by his wife of 58 years, Alice "Emogine" Collier; and six children, Faye Smith and her husband, Randy, of Charlottesville, Charles Collier and his wife, Susie, of Earlysville, Donnie Collier of Ruckersville, David Collier of Ruckersville, Betty Repass and her husband, Arnold, of Harrisonburg, and Michael Collier and his wife, Cathy, of Troy.

Additional survivors include his two siblings, Lester Collier and Addie Collier; six grandchildren; and seven great- grandchildren.

In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his siblings, Raymond Collier, Bertie Rogers, Elmer Collier, Clay Collier, Mary Brill and Hattie Dickerson.

The family will receive friends from 6 until 8 p.m. Monday, April 4, 2011, at Ryan Funeral Home, 12819 Spotswood Trail, Ruckersville, VA 22968.

A funeral service will be held 11 a.m. Tuesday, April 5, 2011, at Eheart Pentecostal Church with Pastor Rodney Olinger officiating. Interment will follow in Holly Memorial Gardens.

• Leslie Harold Collier, virologist, born 9 February 1921; died 14 March 2011

Leslie Collier in the Gambia.

"Professor Leslie Collier, who has died aged 90, was a virologist and bacteriologist who played a key role in eradicating smallpox. He worked out a way of freeze-drying smallpox vaccine so that it could be carried into remote areas in high temperatures. He also made the crucial link between trachoma, affecting 84 million people worldwide, of whom about 8 million are visually impaired, and the sexually transmitted disease chlammydia.. His work changed the method of treatment for patients with trachoma, saving eyesight and many lives.

The world was at the mercy of the smallpox virus when Leslie began his research at the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine, then in Chelsea, London, in 1948. In the early 1950s, an estimated 50m cases of smallpox occurred each year. A vaccine existed, but it would deteriorate within three days of being taken out of a refrigerator. Vaccination visits to remote villages in sub-Saharan Africa and South America had been pointless.

Leslie's breakthrough meant that, for the first time, teams of vaccinators were not dependent on refrigerators. A vaccinator could paddle a canoe into a tropical forest or hike across mountains carrying a simple kit containing a vial of freeze-dried vaccine (enough to vaccinate 200 people), saline solution to reconstitute the freeze-dried vaccine powder, a pot for boiling needles and two plastic tubes – one for clean needles and one for used needles. Importantly, it could also be mass-produced.

In 1967, the World Health Organisation decided to harness the potential of Leslie's vaccine and stamp out smallpox for good. It seemed a near-impossible task: 60% of the world's population then still lived in countries where smallpox was endemic. Unicef bought the vaccine in bulk and distributed it to those who needed it. By the mid-1970s, as many as 150,000 people were engaged in the task of finding infected villages and persuading their sometimes hostile inhabitants to accept the vaccination. By 1980, the WHO was able to announce that smallpox had been eradicated.

Twenty-five years later, an international smallpox meeting was hosted at Barts and the Royal London hospital to mark the anniversary of the last natural case of smallpox, in a hospital cook called Ali Maalin from Somalia. Leslie gave the keynote talk, although he didn't mention his contribution. I wasn't surprised. When we had written Human Virology (1993) together, Leslie wrote the chapter on smallpox and I wrote the chapter on influenza. When it came to the time for us to read each other's work, I was puzzled – to put it mildly – not to find a mention of him in his own chapter. That was typical of Leslie.

In fact Leslie had two firsts, whereas most of us would be quite content with one. The Chinese had already isolated a psittacosis-like bacterium from the eyes of trachoma patients (until then, the disease was thought to be caused by a virus). Leslie's trachoma research units in Chelsea and the Gambia confirmed this work by infecting blind human volunteers with tiny doses of chlamydia trachomatis. He found that chlamydia did indeed cause the disease. This would open the door to new treatments. Leslie was proud to be awarded the Chibret gold medal from the Ligue Contre Le Trachome in 1959.

Ironically, it was his diminishing eyesight that most upset Leslie in his last months. I will miss the afternoons at his flat near the Royal College of Physicians, Regent's Park, and our quiet literary criticisms of each other's writing. I always dreaded a small cough from him. "I don't think the students will understand this, John," he would say. He was usually right. Ours was a friendship bred from viruses, disease and vaccines.
Leslie was deputy director of the Lister Institute from 1968 to 1974 and director of the vaccines and sera laboratories at Elstree, Hertfordshire, from 1974 until their closure in 1978. He was professor of virology at the University of London from 1966 to 1988 and a consultant pathologist at the Royal London hospital from 1987.
He was a devoted editor of the classic bacteriology textbook Topley & Wilson's Principles of Bacteriology, Virology and Immunology (now Topley & Wilson's Microbiology and Microbial Infections). He was also joint editor of Developments in Antiviral Chemotherapy (1980). A fellow of the Royal Society of Pathologists, Leslie was president of the pathology section of the Royal Society of Medicine from 1986 to 1988.
In 1942, he married the film-maker Adeline Barnett, who survives him. Leslie was predeceased by their son David. "
Article written by John Oxford

The FIRST COLLIER to America: Samuel Collier

Samuel Collier came to America from England in 1607, with the first company of colonist. He was still a "youth" and acted as a "page" for Captain John Smith. He also accompanied the Captain on exploration excursions to "unkown parts of Virginia". In 1609 he was left with the Warraskoyack Indians to learn their language. He died young, without children.
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