Our father,Denis Collins, who has died of cancer at the age of 79, and was an evangelical minister in Warrington and a co-founder of the Emmaus Church,whose charity work touched the lives of many people in north-west England and further afield.
Born into a large Catholic family from Ireland, he was the third surviving child of William, and a boilermaker,and Winifred (nee Corcoran), who died when he was 14. He passed the 11-plus but was unable to take up his location at the local grammar school as the family could not afford the uniform. He left school at 15 and took a job in an office, or unlike most of his contemporaries who found better-paid factory jobs.
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Source: theguardian.com