1920
Rosemary
2014
Rosemary B Kollmar
November 3, 1920 — January 9, 2014
Rosemary Boston Kollmar, 93, died Thursday, January 9, 2014.
Memorial services will be at 2:00 p.m., Monday, January 13 in First Baptist Church Chapel with Dr. Howard Batson and the Rev. Corky Holland officiating. Private family burial will be in Memory Gardens Cemetery. Arrangements are by Schooler Funeral Home, 4100 S. Georgia.
Rosemary was born in Wellington, Texas, to Tommie Starkey Boston and William Moody Boston. In 1929, the family moved to Perryton, Texas, where she grew up and graduated from high school in 1937.
She attended Texas State College for Women in Denton and obtained her B. A. degree in Sociology in 1941. She attended Tulane Graduate School of Social Work in New Orleans in 1942-43. She met her husband while there.
She obtained a M.A. degree in Spanish Literature in 1960 from the University of Houston.
In 1944, she married Dr. George Kollmar who preceded her in death in 1992.
The couple went to Barranquilla, Colombia, South America, with their three small daughters in October of 1951, as Southern Baptist missionaries. They lived in Colombia for a total of 25 years, spending several years there in each of four decades. They retired in 1983, and returned to Amarillo.
The Kollmars made their permanent home in Amarillo from 1964 on. They were members of the First Baptist Church.
Rosemary had many interests, but above all, she enjoyed studying and teaching the Bible. She taught her first Sunday School class in 1941, and retired from teaching in 2002. She taught Bible classes in Spanish in Colombia for many years.
In her 90th year, she began writing and distributing her meditations on Bible subjects bound in plastic covers to many members of her family and a host of friends. She sent out the last of her meditations for Christmas and New Year in 2013-2014.
She was especially grateful for the loving care provided by Cristina Rodarte for nine years and 15 years of special therapy by Denell Noland.
Rosemary is survived by her sister, Joan Boston Carrell of Temple, Texas; her three daughters, Karen Stowers and husband, Larry of Amarillo, Martha Bibens and husband, Bill of Lubbock, and Deborah Kollmar of Houston.
Other survivors include her four grandsons, Vincent Wright and Deborah of Tampa, Florida, Matthew Bibens and Tonya of Ashville, North Carolina, Kilburn Bibens of New York City, Russell Stowers of Santa Fe, New Mexico, and great-grandson, Payton Wright. She was also close to her one niece and five nephews, and several surviving cousins.
Memorials may be given to Gideons Memorial Bible Fund, PO Box 2304, Amarillo, TX 79105.
Memorial services will be at 2:00 p.m., Monday, January 13 in First Baptist Church Chapel with Dr. Howard Batson and the Rev. Corky Holland officiating. Private family burial will be in Memory Gardens Cemetery. Arrangements are by Schooler Funeral Home, 4100 S. Georgia.
Rosemary was born in Wellington, Texas, to Tommie Starkey Boston and William Moody Boston. In 1929, the family moved to Perryton, Texas, where she grew up and graduated from high school in 1937.
She attended Texas State College for Women in Denton and obtained her B. A. degree in Sociology in 1941. She attended Tulane Graduate School of Social Work in New Orleans in 1942-43. She met her husband while there.
She obtained a M.A. degree in Spanish Literature in 1960 from the University of Houston.
In 1944, she married Dr. George Kollmar who preceded her in death in 1992.
The couple went to Barranquilla, Colombia, South America, with their three small daughters in October of 1951, as Southern Baptist missionaries. They lived in Colombia for a total of 25 years, spending several years there in each of four decades. They retired in 1983, and returned to Amarillo.
The Kollmars made their permanent home in Amarillo from 1964 on. They were members of the First Baptist Church.
Rosemary had many interests, but above all, she enjoyed studying and teaching the Bible. She taught her first Sunday School class in 1941, and retired from teaching in 2002. She taught Bible classes in Spanish in Colombia for many years.
In her 90th year, she began writing and distributing her meditations on Bible subjects bound in plastic covers to many members of her family and a host of friends. She sent out the last of her meditations for Christmas and New Year in 2013-2014.
She was especially grateful for the loving care provided by Cristina Rodarte for nine years and 15 years of special therapy by Denell Noland.
Rosemary is survived by her sister, Joan Boston Carrell of Temple, Texas; her three daughters, Karen Stowers and husband, Larry of Amarillo, Martha Bibens and husband, Bill of Lubbock, and Deborah Kollmar of Houston.
Other survivors include her four grandsons, Vincent Wright and Deborah of Tampa, Florida, Matthew Bibens and Tonya of Ashville, North Carolina, Kilburn Bibens of New York City, Russell Stowers of Santa Fe, New Mexico, and great-grandson, Payton Wright. She was also close to her one niece and five nephews, and several surviving cousins.
Memorials may be given to Gideons Memorial Bible Fund, PO Box 2304, Amarillo, TX 79105.
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