Constance "Connie" L. Collar

Constance “Connie” Louise Collar passed away peacefully after saying final goodbyes to her family on June 29, 2025. Connie was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, on June 27, 1936, the third child of five to Elbert and Pauline Jones. Connie lived most of her life in the Fort Wayne area and attended Central High School.

Connie married in 1954 and had two sons, Kim and Keith High. In 1972, she married Franklin Collar and added Frank’s two children, Marsha and Stan, to her family. Together, Connie and Frank founded a successful paper supply company. Connie had a passion for travel and spent time all over Europe, but for her, the best of all was Scotland. Connie was also a big fan of the old black-and-white westerns; Wells Fargo was her favorite.

Connie is survived by her two sons, Kim A. High and his wife, Kay, and Keith S. High and his wife, Kim, and her husband of 52 years, Frank Collar. Kim and Kay provided Connie with three grandchildren, Amanda, Michael, and Katherine, and two great-grandchildren, Arden and Elena. Keith and Kim contributed to the family Connie loved so much with two grandchildren, Ashley and Adam, and two more great-grandchildren, Finn and Maggie. Marsha and her husband, Tim Coffelt, added David to the grandchild mix along with two more great-grandchildren, Evelynn and Izzi, and Stan brought his daughter, Natalie, into Connie’s family fold. Connie was the strong and loving matriarch of not one, but three families—the Jones, when her mother passed suddenly in 1968, along with the Highs and the Collars.

Also surviving Connie are her two younger brothers, Steve Jones and his wife, Jane, and Tom Jones and his wife, Jan. Connie follows her older brother, Bill Jones, and her older sister, Wanda McLeod, into the next chapter.

Services for Connie will be held at Greenlawn Funeral Home, located at 6750 Covington Rd., Fort Wayne, IN 46804, on Friday, July 11, 2025. The funeral service will be small, as Connie wished, beginning at 2 p.m. Friends and family are welcome from noon to 2 p.m. to say goodbye to Connie and congratulate her on a life well lived.