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Lind W. Chinnery, M.D. 1956-2021 Physician, Adjunct Professor
while waiting to take the CPA exam. He continued classes after starting to work for Detroit’s only black CPA firm, Austin, Washington, and Davenport. In 1970, he earned a JD from North Carolina Central University (NCCU) and completed the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill’s Young Executive Program. Collins joined North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, based in Durham, NC, in 1967 as an adminis- trative assistant. He rose to numerous management roles and was appointed Chief Executive Officer in 1990. He led the historic Black-owned insurance company for 13 years and retired as Chairman of the Board of Directors. Collins served on numerous cor- porate, civic, and government boards, including the NCCU Board of Trustees and the UNC Board of Governors. He also served as an associate Professor at NCCU in 1974. He joined North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company in 1970, serv- ing in various positions, rising to Presi- dent and CEO and retiring as Chairman of the Board of Directors. A Life Member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc., Collins affiliated with the Durham (NC) Alumni Chapter. He also held memberships with Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity, the National Asso- ciation of Guardsmen, National Bar Association, American Bar Association, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, National Insurance Asso- ciation, North Carolina Bar Association, Michigan Association of Certified Public Accountants, and the Rotary Interna- tional. Brother Bert Collins is survived by his wife of 68 years, Carolyn; his children: Suane A. Collins; Carolyn E. “Brandy” Collins, and Bert E. (Neena) Collins; one grandson, Collin R. (Vicky) Suggs, and a host of nieces, nephews, cousins, and friends.
News, VA, he was board certified in in- ternal medicine, forensics, and bariatric medicine. From 1991 to 2008, Dr. Chinnery started his own private practice, Tide- water Internal Medicine Associates. During this time, he met his wife, of 22 years, Dr. Debra (née Foster) Chinnery, Ed, APNP, BC, where she joined him in the private practice of Internal Medicine as a Nurse Practitioner. In July of 2013, he established Divine Health Care, LLC, where he worked as the CEO and president. Chinnery and his family were long- time members of Grove Baptist Church. He was a member of the Barber Shop Mentoring Program that ministered to the youth while receiving their haircuts. Brother Lind W. Chinnery was preceded in death by his parents, Walter and Ina Chinnery, his sister Lona, and brother Larry Paul. He is survived by his wife of 22 years Dr. Debra Chinnery, daughters Denisha and Kourtney, sons, Dwain, Ahmad, and Akrin. Five grand- children, Morgan, Taylor, Dwain, Dono- van, and Aniya, and a host of nieces, nephews, cousins, special friends, broth- ers in-laws as well as his aunts Edith and Joyce Chinnery and his uncle David Chinnery (Boisy).
Lind W. Chin- nery (Kappa 1980) entered the Chap- ter Invisible on Saturday, October 2, 2021, at age 65. The youngest of five, Lind Walter
Chinnery was born in the U.S. Virgin Islands on February 18, 1956, to the late Walter I. Chinnery of Jost Van Dyke and Ina (née Hill) Chinnery and maintained his dual citizenship in the British Virgin Islands and the United States Virgin Islands. After graduating at age 16 from Charlotte Amalie High School in the Virgin Islands, he attended Virginia State University and graduated in 1977 magna cum laude with a B.A. in pre-medical studies. In1982, he earned a degree in internal medicine from Meharry Medi- cal College. Chinnery completed his residency at Georgetown University in Washing- ton, DC, at the Georgetown Straight Internal Medicine. After completing his residency, he became licensed in the State of Maryland in 1984, Washington DC, and North Carolina in 1985. He had a private practice in New Bern, NC, before relocating to the Hampton Roads, VA area in 1987, working as a physician for Health America Staff Model HMO. From 1988 to 1991, he joined the late William Franklin, MD and Melvin Green, MD in a General Partnership Practice in Family Medicine on Wine Street in Hampton, VA. Chinnery decided to return to the educational armamentarium at the “Home by the Sea,” Hampton University to pursue an MBA from 1996-1998. He worked in the School of Nursing as an adjunct pro- fessor, where he mentored and taught classes on Pathophysiology. In addition to working as Correction- al Medical Officer for the Hampton City Jail Medical Clinic and as an Advisor for Capo Detoxification Center in Newport
Bert Collins 1934-2023 Insurance CEO, Attorney, CPA
Former North
Carolina Mu- tual Life CEO Bert Collins (Gamma Lambda 1953) entered the Chapter Invisible on Sat- urday, January 28, 1953. He was born
on November 9, 1934, in Austin, TX, to James K. and Aldonia (née Edmondson) Collins. He was educated in the public schools of Austin, Texas. Collins earned a BS degree from Huston-Tillotson College. After earning an MBA at the University of Detroit, he married the for- mer Carolyn Porter. He took law classes
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