| William Thomas Collins Jr |
William Thomas "Buck" Collins Jr., 82, who spent nearly 45 years with what became the
AFL-CIO and retired in 1996 as the agency's comptroller and director of accounting, died
Aug. 2, 2007 at Montgomery General Hospital near his home in Olney. He had congestive
heart failure.
Mr. Collins was also a former secretary-treasurer of the AFL-CIO's Human Resources
Development Institute, which provides job training programs nationwide.
He was a native Washingtonian and graduated from Western High School (1943). He
attended George Washington University and graduated from Benjamin Franklin University.
He served in the Marine Corps in the Pacific during World War II.
He was a member of D.C. Friends of Ireland and a former board member of the AFL-CIO
Employees Federal Credit Union.
Survivors include his wife, Michiko Miura Collins, whom he married in 1968, of Olney; and
two sons, Matthew S. Collins and Stephen T. Collins, both of Atlanta.
AFL-CIO and retired in 1996 as the agency's comptroller and director of accounting, died
Aug. 2, 2007 at Montgomery General Hospital near his home in Olney. He had congestive
heart failure.
Mr. Collins was also a former secretary-treasurer of the AFL-CIO's Human Resources
Development Institute, which provides job training programs nationwide.
He was a native Washingtonian and graduated from Western High School (1943). He
attended George Washington University and graduated from Benjamin Franklin University.
He served in the Marine Corps in the Pacific during World War II.
He was a member of D.C. Friends of Ireland and a former board member of the AFL-CIO
Employees Federal Credit Union.
Survivors include his wife, Michiko Miura Collins, whom he married in 1968, of Olney; and
two sons, Matthew S. Collins and Stephen T. Collins, both of Atlanta.
