William T. 'Buck' Collins Jr
2007
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 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. 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.