William T. 'Buck' Collins Jr
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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.