CHS Student Advisory/Rotary Interact Club Provides Headstone For Late Collinsville Educator Everett Singleton

COLLINSVILLE - The Collinsville High School Student Advisory/Rotary Interact Club recently completed its mission to provide a headstone for late Collinsville educator Everett Singleton, who died in 1970.Singleton, who was inducted into the Kahok Hall of Fame in 2024, was a well-known Collinsville educator whose story spans the period of segregation and desegregation in the community. When CHS students in the Student Advisory/Rotary Interact Club learned that Singleton’s grave in St. John Cemetery did not have a marker, they decided to raise funds and provide one.Through fundraisers, such as a Dine-to-Donate event, as well as donations from community members, the group raised $1,690 to purchase the headstone from LaFrank Monument Co. in Collinsville. St. John Cemetery donated the concrete b