Carroll
Collier Family
Texas
m. Midred Louise
Ferguson 9
Nov 1946 Oak Christian, Dallas, TX
b. 12 May 1927 Dallas, TX
d. alive
her father: Forest Ray Ferguson
her mother: Lillian Steams
| children with Mildred Ferguson |
|||
|---|---|---|---|
| John Carrol Collier |
b. 26 Jun 1948 Dallas, Dallas Co., TX | d. | m.Shirley Ann Ferrell 18 Aug 1967 (b, 18 Nov 1946) |
| Lilla Ann Collier | b.21 Nov 1949 Dallas, Dallas Co., TX | d. |
m. Johnny Mack Wortham 23 Mar 1968 Wolf City, TX (b. 4 Sep 1949) |
| Loraine "Lori" Collier | b.5 Nov 1954 Dallas, Dallas Co., Tx | d. | m. Gary Stephen Howell (b. 31 May 1951TX) |
| Stephen "Steve" Ferguson Collier |
b. 3 Apr 1956 Dallas, Dallas Co., TX | d. | m. Barbara McCollough (b. 18 Dec 1955 Midland, TX) |
| Thomas "Tom" Collier |
b. 3 Jun 1962 Dallas, Dallas Co., TX | d. | m. Debbie Shackelford 24 Aug 1985 Austin, TX (b. 29 May 1961 Austin, TX) |
| Grant Norman Collier | b.21 Dec 1964 Dallas, Dallas Co., TX | d. | m. |
Carroll lived in Dallas where all the children attended school and
graduated. Carroll Collier takes some art instruction from Forrest
Kirkland, a first cousin
of Carroll's father. He worked for Forrest for a while at six dollars a
week
but didn't find this enough and eventually took a job for more money in
another
field. This was a especially important during the Depression.
"Forrest had taken a mail order course in drawing at some point. He invited me to his house once a week to teach me drawing and let me take the mail order text home to study from. I was fourteen at the time I worked for him for a few months at six dollars a week, depression period, then took a job that paid more,but not in the art field."[Carroll Collier email 2/22/05]
1942 -"I was in the Army at the time. My school was the art department while in the service. Other than that my schooling was from books and practice. " [Carroll Collier email 2/22/05]
"John demonstrated great talent", recalls Carroll. "In his teenage years, I could see it, but knew if he was going to succeed as an artist, he had to do it on his own initiative. I had seen too many aspiring young artists who did not do well in the field. I didn't want art to break his heart." [bio. from the Gallery Shoal Creek 2004]
More recently John Collier received the
commission to create a memorial sculpture for St. Peter's Catholic
Church in New York which is one block from the World Trade Center and
whose parishioners worked in the center and were lost on 9/11. It
is known as "The Catholic
Memorial at Ground Zero".
Grant, Carroll's son, is working in New York as a web site designer.
Tom
and Steve are both Architects in Austin TX. Tom has just received a Phd
in biomedical Engineering from the U of TX.[John Collier email 2/22/05]
Edith Collier and Roy Kirkland, Forrest's
son, go to movies together while she is in high school.
1970 -" I gradually went from illustration into the fine arts
starting in around 1970."
Carroll Collier. "Spring," oil 1973 "18 x 24"
reproductions by permission of
the artist.
Carroll Collier. "Stone Mountain, Georgia," oil 2005 24" x
30"
reproductions by permission of
the artist.
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