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- Stanley Richard Collis is the 4th child of Bertha and Russell Collis. He was born February 2, 1935 in Thera, Washington. Thera was just outside of Colfax 1.5 miles toward Endicott, and near Diamond. The family was living in a converted grain warehouse beside the railroad track at the time, as Russell was of the warehouse and in charge of loading the sacks of wheat onto the elevator which took them up and into the railroad cars. The warehouse has been long since been torn down.
Bertha and Russell and their children had previously lived in Brentwood, California, where Russell had been born and raised during his younger years. They moved to Washington when Russell's mother lost the ranch in Brentwood to Foreclosure. Bertha's mother and step-father lived in Diamond, Washinton, and that is where Bertha and Russell met. So when the ranch was lost, they returned to Washington.
When Stan was about 2 years of age, the family moved to Colfax and lived on the little ranch inherited by Roy Lamb, Bertha's step-father. This ranch was located 3 miles outside of Colfax on the road toward Diamond. Russell was working in the wheat fields and Bertha cooked for the workers and for the highway crew.
(From: Stanley Collis
To: marlparker@aol.com
Sent: Sun, Feb 6, 2011 10:41 am
Thanks. So far so good. Do you know when we moved from the grainery to the farm? Were you born on the farm? I actually remember the day we left the farm for California, but I don't remember much else except my playhill and the tractor. I droove it into a ditch. Dad put a can over the exhaust to keep rain out. It blew off when he started the tractor)
Stan was 6 years old when the family moved to Sacramento, California, where Russell's sister, Gladyce, lived. The farm had sold and there wasn't much work around Colfax. Stan attended Coloma School when they lived with Gladyce.
Stan attended elementary and junior high schools in Sacramento and graduated from Sacramento Senior High School in 1953. He attended Sacramento State College where he received his BA degree in Mathematics in 1963. He received a Master's degree in 1974 in Court Administration at the Institute for Court Management. He also is a fellow of the Institute for Court Management at Denver Colorado.
Stan served as a data processing procedure writer for the Fifth Army in Chicago Illinois. He worked for the State of California in various data processing roles for more than sixteen years before becoming a co-founder in System Dynamics Inc., a consulting firm specializing in criminal justice data processing. He developed the first on-line criminal justice information system in the country and served as a consultant to the F.B.I. in their development of the National Crime Information Center.
After serving three years as Chief of Criminal Justice Systems for the CIty/County of San Francisco, he took a position as Executive Assistant to the Presiding Judge of the San Francisco Superior Court. Then went to the San Mateo County Court. He retired in 1993 from the San Mateo County Court.
His hobbies were carpentry, skiing, and car building, but now mostly consist of golf and wine collecting.
Stan died quietly sitting in his chair at home at 9:00 on Wednesday, 23 November, 2016. The Hospice doctor had visited that morning and said he had only a couple more day. Stan had been in the hospital with aspiration Pneumonia and then spent a month in a nursing home to strengthen his legs. He had been home a month or 2 and found out he had throut cancer. there was no treatment given as he was already weak and had several health issues. No service of any kind will be held. He was cremated.
Note from Carol, Nov 24, 2016, "Stan passed away last night here at home. He was sitting peacefully in his favorite chair and quietly went to sleep. He had been home for two months from the rehabilitation facility and wanted to die at home. He was diagnosed with throat cancer last month, and his health seemed to decline rapidly. He was depressed that he wasn't going to get better. He did not want any service, so Julie and I are honoring his wishes. "
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1935 - 2016 (81 years)
