May 23, 1974
Myrtle Collins Dies
Mr. Myrtle V. Collins, 73, wife of Everett T. Collins, residents of Barnsdall since 1924, died at 8:40 p.m., Thursday in a Cleveland hospital where she had been a patient six days.
Funeral services were held at 2 p.m., Monday, in the Barnsdall Funeral Home Chapel. Interment will be in the Ethel Reece Cemetery.
Mrs. Collins was born July 3, 1900, at Dallburg, Indian Territory. She and Everett T. Collins were married on May 3, 1918, at Tecumseh, and made their first home near Trousdale. In 1924 Mr. and Mrs. Collins moved to Barnsdall. Mrs. Collins had been in ill health for the past year.
In addition to her husband of the home in Barnsdall, her survivors include three sons, William L. Collins, Nowata, Sherman G. Collins, Pawhuska, and Bennie Huston Collins, rural Wynona; three daughter, Mrs. Robert Rochelle and Mrs.. Robert T. Bleuer, both of Los Angeles, Calif., and Mrs. Donald R. Robertson, Barnsdall; 25 grandchildren; and 13 great-grandchildren.