Port A community rallies to help Family Market IGA employee after son’s death

  • Olga Guerra, a well-known Family Market IGA employee’s son died suddenly over the weekend.
  • Community members are coming together to support her by fund raising for funeral expenses because she can not afford it.
  • Olga’s close family friend, Julie Johnson, started a GoFundMe page which raised over $3,000 in the span of one day.
  • Shopers at Family Market IGA love Olga and want to do whatever they can to help her during this difficult time.

Olga Guerra is a well-known Family Market IGA employee who has been working there as a store clerk and department manager for two decades. Olga’s son, Juan Francicso “Pancho” Collins, died suddenly in his sleep this past weekend. Community members in Port Aransas are coming together to support Olga by fund raising for Juan’s funeral expenses.

“The community has been helping me out a lot. And I appreciate it, every minute of it. Everybody, all my employees, everybody here in Port A, my best friend, my best friends daughter, and her friends, everybody has been real, real, real, real nice,” Guerra said.

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