Gregory Andrew Collier

Greg was born on October 3rd, 1961 in Wichita Falls, Texas to his father Jimmie Doyle Collier and mother Lanora Jean Bruton. He attended schools in Iowa Park, Texas from grade school through high school. He attended Midwestern State University, earning a Bachelor of Science and a degree in Radiologic Technology. He worked for Houston Northwest Medical Center and MD Anderson Cancer Center.

He was married to Pamela Sue VanHemert from 1988 to 2015. His is survived by his two children, Sara and Austin Collier, his two brothers, Dale Camp and Paul Barb, former wife Pamela VanHemert, and beloved chihuahua, B.G. He was planning to marry his fiancée Stella Muñoz.

Gregory was an artist, loved dressing up for the Renaissance Festival, camping, riding his motorcycle, and restoring Volkswagons. He was a big history buff, particularly Roman history. He had a love for nature, especially wolves. He had a secret handshake with his daughter, Sara.

A memorial service will be planned for a later date. Calvary Hill Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

“If tears could build a stairway,

And memories a lane,

I would walk right up to Heaven

And bring you back again.”

“Walk a little plainer, Daddy,

(said a little boy so frail),

I’m following in your footsteps,

And I don’t want to fail.

Sometimes your steps are very plain,

Sometimes they are hard to see,

So walk a little plainer, Daddy,

For you are leading me.

I know that once you walked this way,

Many years ago.

And what you did along this way,

I’d really like to know.

For sometimes when I am tempted,

I don’t know what to do,

So walk a little plainer, Daddy,

For I must follow you.

Some day when I’m grown up,

You are like what I want to be.

Then I will have a little boy

Who will want to follow me.

And I would want to lead him right

And help him to be true.

So walk a little plainer, Daddy,

For we must follow you.”

-A poem found in a family photo album