Barbara Ann Collins

Barbara Ann Collins of Chester, MD, died Saturday, October 22, 2022, at Anne Arundel Medical Center in Annapolis, MD. She was 79. Born October 8, 1943, in New York, NY, she was the daughter of the late Joseph and Kathryn Hart Corsaro. Barbara grew up in Manhattan and Queens in the 40’s and 50’s.She attended Andrew Jackson High School and worked in the Garment District, meeting her mother after work near Bryant Park for the subway ride home. The youngest of three siblings, she grew up in an Irish-Italian household always filled with her aunts, uncles, cousins and food. Lots of food! She met and married Donald Collins in 1962 and went with him to El Paso, TX, while he served in the United States Army. She had her daughter Deborah while in Texas and then her sons Gregory and Glenn when they returned home to Long Island where they lived for the next thirty years in Port Jefferson Station, NY. After staying home with her children for the first 12 years or so, she went to work for Suffolk County as an office manager. Barbara was an avid reader of mysteries and read thousands of them in her lifetime. A good Sunday meant getting to the bakery first thing in the morning, putting homemade sauce on the stovetop and dipping fresh bread from the bakery in it all day long and doing some work around the house listening to Johnny Mathis. After her husband retired, they spent the next few years in Phoenix, AZ, before settling in Chester, MD, for the rest of her life. She loved day trips around the Eastern Shore, enjoying crabs with her family, and walking her beloved dog, Rocky. She took great joy in passing down her Strufoli recipe to her granddaughter, Caroline, so it will live on for generations to come. Barbara is survived by her sister, Lucy Pastore (Corsaro), her daughter, Deborah Krueger (Dennis) of Stevensville, MD; sons, Greg Collins (Elaine) of FL and Glenn Collins (Jennifer) of CA; and ten grandchildren, Christopher, Caroline, Erik, Jonathan, Kayla, Matthew, Michael, Joshua, Oliver, and Sebastian. There will be no services at this time. In lieu of flowers, she would probably want you all to know that bagels should be eaten fresh and pizza hot. Anything else and you are just not doing it right. She would also appreciate donations to the Alzheimer’s Association at https://www.alz.org/?form=alz_donate.

Barbara Ann Collins

October 8, 1943 - October 22, 2022