Collinge, Charles W.
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Brothe r Collinge was twice marned.
His first wife was Miss Carrie Mauntler
Elmer Houser
of T oledo, Ohio. Five children blessed
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this marriage. Two of them have passed
Three brief Scn~ture term s ep1tom•ze beyond. Two sons,. Fred and Walter, of
the character of th1s brother, who passed Toledo a nd one daughter, 1\[rs. Harry
to his hea,·enly home on Sunday morning,
, " L 'a\\Te,;ce of Buffalo• N. Y.• survive. His
F ebruary 1, 1931. "A man o f GOtI•
a fi rs t wife died some years ago. In 1906
good man-in whom there was no g uile." he was united in ma rriage with M iss
Charles vV. C.ollinge was bo;·n in i\raude Basey of Toledo. Four children
Gananoque, O nta n o, October 7, 18:>9. He came to this union-Mrs. D onald Chubb
was educated in the common schools of ot Rom eo Mrs. Cha rles Mallory of FernCanada and in the public schools of T o- dale a nd 'Ruth and Virg inia at home. Mrs.
ledo, O hio, to which he removed when a Collinge, with the seven children named,
boy.
survives.
I-Te was converted at the age of sixteen,
The fun eral was h eld on Tuesday at
during a r evival in St. P a ul's Methodist the church of which Brother Collinge was
church, Toledo. T hree years later he was pastor. He had g reatly endeared himself
given an exhorter's, then a local preacher"s to these people, and they were profoundly
license. He was made junior pastor on m oved by his being taken from them. BeArcadia circuit and next year was re- sides Dr. Field, D istrict Superintendent,
cei,·ed on trial in the Ohio Conference. these m inisters participated in the fun eral
H ere he sen·ed two years. Then h e went ser vice : Howard Burden, vV. H. Collyto Garrett Biblical Institute at E,·ans ton. colt, Glen R. Aspin (pastor S tarr Avenue
In 1883 he went to North .Dakota, or- Congr ega tional church, Royal Oak) and
ganized a cl}urch at Steele, m that state \ V. c. s. Pellowe. The bearers were feland ser ved as its pastor. Returning to low minis ters. The burial was at WoodO hio he ser ved several pastorates with lawn Cemetery, Toledo. A wonderful
mark~d ability. He held three pastorates tribute to his memory was paid in Toledo,
in the city of Toledo, his most outstand- where a large company of friends gathing one being Monroe Street church for ered at the cemetery. Practically all the
fi ve years.
churches he had served were r epresented,
In t he fa ll of 1920 B rother Collinge al so a number of preachers from T oledo
ca me to Detroit (his membership being and Yicinity were present.
transferred to D etroit Conference) to
serve as pastor of vVesley church under
D r. ]. Archi bald Homes for one year,
then one year under Dr. H oward A. Field.
Next Brother Collinge served one year as
pas tor at Mary Palmer, D etroit; three
years at Romeo; t wo years at Trinity,
Roseville; one year at North Detroit, and
was in his s econd year at S t. John's
c hurch, Royal Oa k, when he passed away.
Some two months ago Brother Collinge
s uffered a s troke of apoplexy, from w hich .
he never recovered. His last ill ness was .
spent in Harper Hospital. He ra llied so
that it was thoug ht possib le he mig ht return home. But it was not to be. He
did not leave his hospital bed. While at
times during the period his mind was
clouded, at other times it was clear, to the
,·cry las t. His faith a nd tru st never fa iled.
As Dr. F ield sa id a t the fun eral service:
"He was a good preacher, a fine administrator, a splendid Bible expositor. He.
always did cons tructive work. In almost
every place he served he either built or
r emodelled church or parso nage. He was
evangelis tic in spirit, and his early pastorates were marked by large accessions
to the church. He regretted that in his
later pastorates he could not see as large
additions to the membership. He loved
people a lways. He was warm-hearted
and broth erly to .everybody. H e always
kept young in spirit."
Charles W. Collinge Crowned
Collinge, Charles W.