Patricia “Pat” Collins, a civic-minded matriarch who raised six children, including Republican Sen. Susan Collins, and led a life of public service, died Tuesday at age 96, the senator announced. .
After coming to the United States from Columbia, Pat Collins grew up in Port Jervis, New York, and attended the University of Maine before setting down roots in Maine, where she married her husband Donald in 1948 and started a family, raising the first It became. A woman is elected as mayor of Caribou and chair of the University of Maine System Board of Governors.
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She was an artist who painted watercolor portraits of her husband’s colleagues in the Maine State Senate, earned a fine arts degree from the University of Maine at Presque Isle, and was “a brilliant cook who published two cookbooks.” the senator said.
Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) raps Hunter Biden during a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Judiciary, Science, and Related Agencies hearing to discuss the Department of Justice’s fiscal year 2023 budget. Ask Attorney General Merrick Garland about the top investigation. April 26, 2022 at the Capitol in Washington, DC. (GREG NASH/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
Democratic Gov. Janet Mills called Pat Collins a “friend and pioneer” who loved the state and “especially Aroostook County, which she holds dear.”
“Pat will be remembered for her extraordinary character, marked by grace and integrity. She leaves behind a deep legacy of service,” Mills said in a statement.
Pat Collins found time to hold many other public service positions while raising her family. She serves on the advisory board of the Maine Public Broadcasting Network, as a court-appointed special advocate for children, and as chair of the Catholic Charities of Maine Board of Directors and the Catholic Foundation of Maine Board of Directors. Ta.
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She was married for 70 years to her husband, who passed away in 2018. In addition to the senator, she is survived by five children, 11 grandchildren, and several great-grandchildren.
