Dec. 16, 2002
Edgar Colins services Tuesday
Funeral services for Edgar Neil Collins, 60, West Plains, will be 10 a.m., Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2002, in the Rose Chapel of the Robertson-Drago Funeral Home of West Plains, witht he Revs. Mark Mildren, Art Ellsworth and Bob Arnold officiating under the direction of Robertson-Drago Funeral Home of West Plains.
Mr. Collins died 2:25 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 14, 2002, at Ozarks Medical Center, West Plains. He was born July 25, 1942, in Howell County, the son of Sterling Neal and Bima Irene Cunningham Collins.
On May 19, 1973, he was married at West Plains to Lynette Kay Dunnihoo.
Mr. Collins was a carpenter and had worked at the West Plains Daily Quill. He enjoyed hunting and fishing, like to do puzzles and puzzle books; loved to read and enjoyed doing the lettering on cemetery markers.
He was a very loving person and was a loving husband, father and brother.
He was a member of First United Methodist Church.
Suvivors include his wife, Kay Collins of the family home, one daugher, Tina Collins, West Plains; his father Sterling Collins, West Plains; one brother Rany Colins and wife, Kathy, West Plains; three sisters, Beverly Hammond and husband, Jim, Anita Reno and husband, W. J., and Kathy Franks and husbadn, Doyle, all of West Plains; and many niees and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his mother, one brother, Virgil Lee Collins; his grandparents, Shelt and Anvilen Collins, and Hug and Georgia Cunningham; and two special uncles, Webb Collins and Herb Collins.
Burial will be in New Liberty Cemetery under the direction of Robertson-Drago Funeral Home.