Memorial service: 11 a.m. Monday in Wade Family Funeral Home Chapel, 4140 W. Pioneer Parkway, Arlington, the Rev. Francine Copeland officiating. Burial: 1 p.m. in Dallas-Fort Worth National Cemetery, Dallas.

Memorials: First United Methodist Church Children's Ministries, 313 N. Center St., Arlington 76011.

He was born Jan. 12, 1922, in Forest Hill. Bud graduated from Polytechnic High School, Georgia Tech and the University of Michigan. As an aeronautical engineer from 1942-1984, he participated in aircraft, guided missile and spacecraft programs, including B-26, PO-80, Atlas, Apollo, Space Shuttle , Piper Malibou and Gulfstreams III and IV.

During World War II, Bud and his B-24 crew flew 16 bombing missions from Italy to Germany. Before retirement in 1962 as an Air Force lieutenant colonel, he was associate professor of astronautics at the Air Force Academy and taught senior academy cadets. At retirement, he was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal.

Survivors: Wife, Lorraine; sons and their wives, Robert and Helen, David and Joan, Chris and Rachel, and Tom and Mary, and their mother, Irene Collier; stepdaughter, Jan Waddell; stepsons, Loy Waddell and wife, Virginia, and Ray Waddell; brothers, Ward Collier and wife, Marie, and Bill Collier; sister, Mary Jane Shaw; 12 grandchildren; one great-granddaughter; seven stepgrandchildren; and 13 stepgreat-grandchildren.