Lengkepan kalimah di handap ieu: Collins maot tina pneumonia di Boston, dina 23 Nopémber 1995. Lima poé saterusna, anjeunna dimakamkeun di St. Joseph Cemetery di West Roxbury nuturkeun Misa pamakaman di Katedral Holy Cross Boston anu dirayakeun ku Kardinal Bernard Francis Law, Uskup Agung Katolik Archdiocese of Boston (1984-2002). Obituaries of him published in "MIT Tech Talk" and by the Associated Press, as well as his entry in "The Encyclopedia of the Irish in America" (1999) published by the University of Notre Dame Press and written by a member of the Society of Jesus, don't mention that the Boston Housing Authority actively segregated the public housing developments in the city during his tenure, that his property tax assessor's office implemented racially discriminatory assessments, the Boston Police Department response to the Grove Hall riots, or that the Boston Banks Urban Renewal Group redlined Blue Hill Avenue, but the Associated Press obituary noted that the urban renewal policies Collins implemented in Boston were emulated across the United States. Dina taun 2004, taun anu sami Sénator Nagara Illinois Barack Obama masihan pidato utama di
Konvénsi Nasional Démokratik di Boston, pamaréntah kota maréntahkeun mural Collins di luar Balai Kota Boston anu caket kana stasion Pusat Pamaréntah sareng didedikasikan Balai Kota Plaza ka anjeunna ogé. Katerangan anu diukir dina marker mural henteu nyebutkeun kawijakan perumahan segregasi sareng diskriminasi rasial administrasi walikota Collins atanapi kerusuhan Grove Hall ogé.