Born in a log cabin on a remote homestead in the vicinity of Rocky Point, Wyoming, the fifth-born of seven children, Ada Marian, having acquired some of her highschool education by correspondence, graduated from Campbell County High School in Gillette, Wyoming in 1937. She received some "normal training" while in high school, and, in the summer of 1938, attended summer school at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, where, by September, she had completed the courses in elementary education required to obtain a teaching certificate from the State of Wyoming Department of Education. Her classes in the College of Education included educational methods in: art, music and freehand drawing (Mom, no wonder you could draw so well!); English and Fr. (French?) composition; introduction to psychology; educational psychology; and phys. ed-swimming: for which she received an "inc" (Is it any wonder? She had a life-long "fear of water"). As an art class assignment, she wrought a clay sculpture of a horse, which her instructor admired and kept. She taught at various country schools, including one near Spotted Horse, Wyoming. After a brief teaching career, in 1940 she met and married Norman Collins, and together, they (and Norman's brother and his wife) ran a water-well drilling, fuel hauling and dispensing, trucking, and auto and machinery repair business in Arvada, Wyoming. She and her husband raised a family there comprised of five children, all of whom obtained degrees from the University of Wyoming. She and Norman and one son Patrick ("Pat") moved to Story, Wyoming around 1968. While her husband drilled water wells in rocky terrain and hunted, trapped and fly-fished for trout (his passion), she kept the books, tended vegetable and fruit gardens, grew beautiful flowers, sewed quilts, produced many fine paintings in acrylic and watercolor and a few pastels, joined the local chapter of the Audubon Society, and became an expert birder (birdwatcher), participating in many bird counts and birding expeditions with fellow birders and friends. She won a First Prize for an acrylic painting of a winter Magpie on a gatepost against a snowy Bighorn Mountain backdrop, at an Audubon Art Show in Lander, Wyoming. After she and her husband retired, and snow shoveling got to be too much of a strain, they moved to Buffalo, Wyoming in 1989, where she continued to garden, paint, quilt and pursue "birding" and photography with her son Jim and her special friend and author/photographer/naturalist Esther McWilliams. She was preceded in death by her parents, six siblings, her special friend, a niece and her unborn child, and her husband, whom she cared for with some assistance from family and professionals after he suffered a stroke in 1991, until he died in 1995. She endured many of the usual health problems of septuagenarians, octogenarians and nonagenarians (including Alzheimer's, arthritis and cancer). She wasn't able to fulfil a young girl's dream of traveling to and writing about those "faraway" places, like Europe, Africa and Australia, that she learned about in school; and she never was able to visit her oldest brother Bill's grave in Sicily, where he died in 1943 in service to his Country. All in all though, she had a fruitful and interesting life. Ada Marian Morrow "from Ohio to Wyoming", our dear mother, died at home in her sleep, without saying goodbye, on 16 October, 2012, much to the great dismay and profound sorrow of her children. When God made Ada Marian, He broke the mold. She's now, once again, in His studio.