10-17-1983
Funeral Services for Ethel Marie Collins, 60, West Plains, were at 2 p.m. Sunday in the Carter Funeral Home Chapel, West Plains.
Mrs. Collins died at 9:02 a.m. Friday in West Plains Memorial Hospital. She was born Aug. 23, 1923, in Dora, the daughter of the late Hurvul and Jessie Driskell Epley.
She was married Dec. 12, 1940, at Pottersville to Lester Collins, and she was a member of the Sixth Street church of God. She was a retired inspector for the Coca Cola Bottling Co.
Survivors include her husband, Lester Collins, West Plains; four children, Donald Ray Collins, Belton, Ron Collins and Phyllis Honeyfield, both of West Plains., and Larry Collins, Joplin; three sisters, Ella B. Dobbs and Bertha Collins, West Plains, and Lorena Freeman, Fairfax; three brothers, Roy Epley, Springfiled, Windell Epley, West Plains, and Donal Epley, Sprinfield; one aunt; and six grandchildren.
Burial was in Oak Lawn Cemetery under the direction of Carter Funeral Home, West Plains