{"id":220025,"date":"2025-04-07T15:00:32","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T19:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=220025"},"modified":"2025-04-07T15:00:39","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T19:00:39","slug":"gofundme-page-set-up-for-father-and-son-killed-on-georgia-golf-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=220025","title":{"rendered":"GoFundMe Page Set Up For Father and Son Killed on Georgia Golf Course"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A day on the golf course ended in heartbreak. A father and son\u2014both well-loved in their community\u2014were killed in a tragic accident during Saturday&#8217;s storms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Authorities say 58-year-old Matthew Terrell Collins Sr. and his son, 29-year-old Matthew Terrell Collins Jr., were struck and killed by a falling tree while spending time together at Bull Creek Golf Course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The two were caught in Sunday&#8217;s severe weather\u2014sharing a father-son moment that would unknowingly be their last.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, friends and loved ones are rallying around the Collins family. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/aid-for-collins-family-funeral-costs\">GoFundMe<\/a> has been launched to help with funeral and memorial costs, with a goal of raising $20,000. Organizers say every donation\u2014no matter the amount\u2014will help a grieving wife and mother now facing the unthinkable: burying both her husband and her only son.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Collins family is being remembered as loyal, kindhearted, and deeply connected to their community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So far, over $14,000 has been raised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n[mailerlite_form form_id=34]\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A day on the golf course ended in heartbreak. A father and son\u2014both well-loved in their community\u2014were killed in a tragic accident during Saturday&#8217;s storms. Authorities say 58-year-old Matthew Terrell Collins Sr. and his son, 29-year-old Matthew Terrell Collins Jr., were struck and killed by a falling tree while spending time together at Bull Creek [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":948,"featured_media":220026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[8963,17621],"class_list":["post-220025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-georgia-people","tag-gofundme","tag-golf-course","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=220025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=220025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=220025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=220025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}