Albert B Collins

ALBERT B. COLLINS 70 OF DOUGLASVILLE, GA TOOK HIS LAST FLIGHT TO HIS FINAL DESTINATION ON MAY 15, 2025. ALBERT WAS BORN ON JANUARY 17, 1955, IN ANSIONIA CT. TO MR. BROOKS COLLINS SR. AND MRS. FLORINE DAVIS-COLLINS. WITHIN A FEWS MONTHS AFTER HIS BIRTH HIS FAMILY MOVED TO NEW HAVEN, CT. ALBERT WAS EDUCATED IN THE NEW HAVEN PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM. HE GRADUATED FROM WILBUR CROSS HIGH SCHOOL IN 1972 AND ATTENDED THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAVEN IN 1974.

ALBERT COLLINS WAS A MAN OF MANY TALENTS. HE WAS A WRITER, A POET, A SELF-MADE PHOTOGRAPHER, AND A WORLD TRAVLER. YOU WOULD NEVER KNOW WHERE HE WAS IF HE DIDN’T POST IT ON FACEBOOK. ALBERT COLLINS WAS THE LIFE OF THE PARTY. HIS KIDS CALLED HIM “ROCKSTAR’’ AND LIKE THE SONG GOES HE PARTIED LIKE A ROCK STAR.

ALBERT LEAVES BEHIND TO MOURN HIS DEATH HIS SIX CHILDREN: LARHONDA CLAXTON OF NEW HAVEN,CT, LASHONDA WOODSON OF EAST HAVEN, CT. BISHOP JUAN(KEDISHIA) WOODSON OF HARTFORD, CT, ALEXIS COLLINS OF DOUGLASVILLE GA. ALEX COLLINS OF DOUGLASVILLE GA. AND A SON IN NEW HAVEN,CT. ALBERT HAS FOUR GRANDDAUGHTERS: COLASIA CLAXTON (WHO HE AFFECTIONATELY CALLED “BIG C.C.”),COLLANA CLAXTON (WHO HE AFFECTIONATELY CALLED “LITTLE C.C.”), JAZZMINE WOODSON, AND KASHAY WOODSON-BLACK. ALBERT HAD TWO GRANDSONS: JUAN WOODSON-ESNARD AND JOHN WOODSON. ALBERT ALSO LEAVE ONE GREAT GRANDDAUGHTER JOUNREE WOODSON.

ALBERT LEAVES BEHIND TWO SISTERS: GLENDA (MAURICE) MARTIN OF HAMDEN, CT AND TAMARA COLLINS OF NEW HAVEN, CT. FIVE BROTHERS: BROOKS (BETTE JAYNE) COLLINS JR. OF SANTA ANA, CA, ALVIN COLLINS OF HARTFORD, CT, TODD COLLINS OF NEW HAVEN, CT, FREDRICK COLLINS OF NEW HAVEN, CT, AND EVERETT “RICKY” COLLINS OF WEST HAVEN CT. ONE AUNTS: DORIS DAVIS OF BALTIMORE, MD AND ONE DAUGHTER/NIECE KIM SMITH OF COLUMBIA, MD. AND HOST OF NIECES, NEPHEWS, COUSINS, AND FRIENDS.

ALBERT WAS PROCEED IN DEATH BY HIS PARENTS: BROOKS AND FLORINE COLLINS, ONE BROTHER WENDELL COLLINS. TWO SISTERS: MONIQUE HAYES AND BONNIE COLLINS-SEABERRY.