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Johnson Hindin Genealogy
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 1920 - 2010
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| Born |
21 Sep 1920 |
Bloomfield, New Jersey  |
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Male |
| Died |
Between 9 Sep 2010 and Jan |
Easton, Maryland |
| Person ID |
I12331 |
Johnson Hindin Tree |
| Last Modified |
12 May 2013 |
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| Notes |
- The following obituary was published in The Star Democrat (Easton, Maryland) on September 12, 2010:
EASTON Bert A. Collison of St. Michaels passed away peacefully on Thursday, Sept. 9, 2010, at the Memorial Hospital of Easton.
Born Sept. 21, 1920, in Bloomfield, N.J., he was the only son of the late Charles H. Collison and Erna F. Collison. His family later moved to Towson, where Mr. Collison attended high school. It was there that he met his future wife, Mary Ruth Etter, whom he married in 1947.
Mr. Collison graduated from Johns Hopkins University in 1942 where he was enrolled in the ROTC program. He joined the U.S. Army Air Corps when World War II broke out and was promoted to the rank of captain, serving as supply officer for the 413th Fighter Group in the Pacific until the end of the war.
Following his military service, Mr. Collison returned to Baltimore where he entered the University of Maryland School of Law, earning his Bachelor of Law degree in 1949. Following law school, the Collison family lived in Wyckoff, N.J., and summered in St. Michaels, where they moved full time in 1991. Mr. Collison was an elected member of the Wyckoff School District Board of Education and a member of the Wyckoff Volunteer Fire Department.
Mr. Collison began his distinguished law career as member of the legal department at Colgate-Palmolive Company where he developed an expertise in the field of intellectual property. He later joined with and became managing partner of the renowned New York law firm Nims, Howes, Collison & Isner, recognized as the leading authority in the field of trademarks. He was an internationally respected intellectual property law trial attorney and claimed many Fortune 500 corporations as clients. Mr. Collison became of-counsel when his firm merged with Duane Morris in 2002 and later with Lathrop & Gage in 2004, with whom he remained active counsel and consultant until his death.
He was admitted to the Maryland and New York Bar Associations and earned court memberships in the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and the New York District Court for the Southern District of New York. He served as chairman of the Trademark Division of the American Bar Association Section on Patents, Trademarks and Copyrights; Member of the Public Trademark Advisory Committee; Counsel to the United States Trademark Association; President of the New York Intellectual Property Law Association; Chairman of the Trademark and Unfair Competition Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York; and earned numerous prestigious honors during his esteemed career.
In addition to his remarkable professional achievements, family and friends will remember Mr. Collison as an avid sailer and sports fan who closely followed the Johns Hopkins and University of Maryland lacrosse teams, as well as his beloved New York Yankees and the New York football Giants. He will also be remembered as a man of intellect, great wit, and good humor. He was devoted to his wife and to his family and enjoyed sharing his many memories of Solitude Creek in St. Michaels and a family-owned island in Southold, N. Y., where he spent summers during his childhood.
Mr. Collison is survived by his wife of 63 years, Mary Ruth Collison; sons Michael Collison and wife Kim, Kenneth Collison, and Douglas Collison and wife Deborah; grandsons Brian Collison, Gregory Collison, Jack Collison, and Christopher Collison; nieces Cecelia Robertson, Caroline Coe, and nephew James Clifford; nephews John Womack, Steven Womack, James Womack, Charles Womack, and niece Ann Womack; and cousin Walter Collison. He will be greatly missed by his beloved "High School Group" and by the many members of his extended family.
A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 18, at St. Luke's United Methodist Church in St. Michaels. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests that memorial contributions be made to Talbot Mentors Inc., 108 Maryland Ave., #102, Easton, MD 21601, 410-770-5999.
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