1939-2001
Funeral services for Ginger Collins, 62, of Gainesville were held Tuesday, April 24, at Clinkingbeard Funeral Home with Pastor Dale Roberts officiating. Burial was in Pontiac Cemetery.
Mrs. Collins died Friday, April 20, 2001, at Baxter Regional Medial Center in Mountain Home, Ark. She was born Jan. 23, 1939, in Siloam Springs, Ark., the daughter of James B. and Alice Mae Lee Eden. She married Gene Collins Oct. 25, 1963 in Wichita, Kan.
She was a member of Mammoth Assembly of God and was employed as a CNA in a nursing home.
Mrs. Collins is survived by two sons, Dennis Ferris and his wife, Irene, of Gainesville and Rick Collins and his wife, Tammy, of Mountain View, Ark.; three daughters, Donna Holmes and her husband, Nic, of Foley, Minn., Lisa Royce and her husband, Danny, of Wichita, Kan., and Robin Studdard and her husband, Jerry, of Gainesville; one step-daughter, Gina Hirsh and her husband, Dave, of Kinsley, Kan.; two sisters, Helen Clark of Wichita, Kan., and Janice Fogleman of California; three brothers, Gene Edens of Waynesboro, N.C., Evert Edens of Peabody, Kan., and Robert Edens of Conway, Ark.; 16 grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Gene; her parents; one grandson, Jason Carl Ferris; three brothers; and two sisters.
Pallbearers were Dennis Ferris, Jerry Studdard, Danny Collins, Junior Collins, Don Decker and Gary Roberts. Honorary pallbearers were Frank Miller, Kenny Erickson, Ed Smith and Butch Winslow.
Clinkingbeard Funeral Home, Gainesville, directors.