Richard passes away at grand old age of 98

Richard Norman Collins

Published on 18/11/2012 09:04

RICHARD Norman Collins, late of Harmony Fold, Lisburn and formerly of Belsize Road, passed away on November 9, at the age of 98.

Norman, who was awarded for his military services became a member of the Order of the British Empire in 1962, was born in Gilnahirk and one of the better-known personalities in Lisburn, having spent 62 years of his life here.

He was Captain and President of the Golf Club, and a founder member and president of the Rotary Club. He was also a member of the British Legion and the Bridge Club, and was well known in Masonic circles.

He was born in Gilnahirk, raised in Belfast and educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution and Queen’s University. He graduated as a civil engineer and took up a post with Belfast Corporation in 1936.

He was called up in October 1939 and became a Major in the Royal Engineers, serving in India and then Burma with the Chindits behind enemy lines until 1945.

After the war he joined the Territorial Army where he became a Lieutenant-Colonel with the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers.

In 1946, he worked in Strabane for the local council, then moved to Lisburn in 1950 as the Rural Council Surveyor until 1969, when the Rural and Urban Councils were amalgamated.

Norman took on the Engineer and Surveyor jobs for the combined Borough until he moved to the Department of the Environment in Belfast in 1973.

He married the late Winifred Maude while on leave in 1942, and they had a very fulfilling and happy life together until she sadly passed away in 2001.

He is survived by daughter Judith (Canada), son David (South Africa) and grandson Timothy.

A Service of Thanksgiving for his life will take place today (Friday) at 11am in First Lisburn Presbyterian Church. A private committal will follow.

News

Looking for...

Featured advertisers

Jobs

Search for a job

Motors

Search for a car

Make Model Price from Price to

Property

Search for a house

Buy Rent

Bedrooms Price from Price from Price to Price to

What is a Cookie?
What is a Flash Cookie?
Can I opt out of receiving Cookies?
About our Cookies

Cookies are small data files which are sent to your browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome etc) from a website you visit. They are stored on your electronic device.
This is a type of cookie which is collected by Adobe Flash media player (it is also called a Local Shared Object) - a piece of software you may already have on your electronic device to help you watch online videos and listen to podcasts.
Yes there are a number of options available, you can set your browser either to reject all cookies, to allow only "trusted" sites to set them, or to only accept them from the site you are currently on.

However, please note - if you block/delete all cookies, some features of our websites, such as remembering your login details, or the site branding for your local newspaper may not function as a result.
The types of cookies we, our ad network and technology partners use are listed below:
- Revenue Science ►
  
  A tool used by some of our advertisers to target adverts to you based on pages you have visited in the past. To opt out of this type of targeting you can visit the 'Your Online Choices' website by clicking here.
- Google Ads ►
  
  Our sites contain advertising from Google; these use cookies to ensure you get adverts relevant to you. You can tailor the type of ads you receive by visiting here or to opt out of this type of targeting you can visit the 'Your Online Choices' website by clicking here.
- Webtrends / Google Analytics ►
  
  This is used to help us identify unique visitors to our websites. This data is anonymous and we cannot use this to uniquely identify individuals and their usage of the sites.
- Dart for Publishers ►
  
  This comes from our ad serving technology and is used to track how many times you have seen a particular ad on our sites, so that you don't just see one advert but an even spread. This information is not used by us for any other type of audience recording or monitoring.
- ComScore ►
  
  ComScore monitor and externally verify our site traffic data for use within the advertising industry. Any data collected is anonymous statistical data and cannot be traced back to an individual.
- Local Targeting ►
  
  Our Classified websites (Photos, Motors, Jobs and Property Today) use cookies to ensure you get the correct local newspaper branding and content when you visit them. These cookies store no personally identifiable information.
- Grapeshot ►
  
  We use Grapeshot as a contextual targeting technology, allowing us to create custom groups of stories outside out of our usual site navigation. Grapeshot stores the categories of story you have been exposed to. Their privacy policy and opt out option can be accessed here.
- Subscriptions Online ►
  
  Our partner for Newspaper subscriptions online stores data from the forms you complete in these to increase the usability of the site and enhance user experience.
- Add This ►
  
  Add This provides the social networking widget found in many of our pages. This widget gives you the tools to bookmark our websites, blog, share, tweet and email our content to a friend.
- 3rd Party Cookies ►
  
  We use Advertising agencies to provide us with some of the advertising on our websites. These include (but are not limited to) Specific Media, The Rubicon Project, AdJug, AdConion, Context Web. Please click on the provider name to visit their opt-out page.

Richard passes away at grand old age of 98

Top stories

News