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Hazel Juanita Winters Collins
Hazel Juanita Winters Collins first experiences in life came by way of growing up on a plantation farm in South Georgia. Her parents, Ruth and Clower Winters, owned and operated th...view moreHazel Juanita Winters Collins first experiences in life came by way of growing up on a plantation farm in South Georgia. Her parents, Ruth and Clower Winters, owned and operated that farm, raising five daughters to be both ladies but also women with practical knowledge in growing crops, raising livestock and assuring proper and humane relations with the white and black families who worked on the farm. A graduate of Morven High School, Class of 1936, Ms. Collins attended a year at Valdosta State, hoping to become a social worker. But she soon discovered her future husband, the “handsome giant” from Quitman, Wilbur G. Collins, and married him the day after Christmas, 1937. Being a graduate from the Colorado School of Mines, a diesel engineer by trade, Mr. Collins had his own ideas about social work, and with the birth of a first son some nine months later, Mrs. Collins devoted herself to becoming a full-time housewife and mother. Only after all three sons were grown in the 1950’s did she decide to become one of the first female realtors in Georgia - a very successful one it might be added - and later still, in 1968, a proprietor and operator of Grandview Lodge with her husband in Waynesville, NC – a popular resort for people from Florida. Ms. Collins became sole proprietor and continued to operate Grandview after her husband’s death in 1980. Because of her culinary talents, and by popular request, she wrote “How We Cook at Grandview Lodge” (still in print), and, following her retirement from Grandview, “These Stories I Lived!,” the childhood memories you will find in this collection.view less
Books by Hazel Juanita Winters Collins
These Stories I Lived: Growing up on a Plantation Farm in South Georgia