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Article: Pioneer civic leader James Collie dies at age 91
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- Miami Times
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- January 19, 1995
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Erick Johnson
Miami Times
01-19-1995
Pioneer civic leader James Collie dies at age 91.
By ERICK JOHNSON
Times Staff Writer
Funeral services for James Collie, civic pioneer and community activist, are tentatively scheduled for Saturday at St. Agnes Episcopal Church.
Range Funeral Home is handling the arrangements.
Collie died Tuesday afternoon at Jackson Memorial Hospital, which he entered on Sunday. He was 91.
For nearly 70 years, Collie was happily married to Elizabeth Collie at their Liberty Heights residence. Since 1924 they have weathered many storms together, including racial confrontations and terrorist threats by the Ku Klux Klan. They were also a winning team of six children who had been ...