G. Warren Collier

About the Authors

G. Warren Collier was born on a dairy farm near Durant, IA, on August 8, 1921, to Oakley and Grace Collier. He attended country school in his younger years but attended Wilton High School where he played football. Warren attended a short course related to dairy farming at Iowa State University in Ames. He spent his adult life farming and raised six children. He is now retired and living in the house where he was born.

Judy Collier Johnson, the eldest daughter of Warren and Miriam Collier, was born and raised on her parents' dairy farm near Davenport, Iowa. After graduating from Durant High School in 1965, she earned her BA degree in education from Morningside College in Sioux City, Iowa, in 1969. She taught high school language arts, speech and drama at Manson, Iowa, for twenty-two years. Judy and her husband, Doug, have two children and two grandchildren.