Oct 26, 1979
Ralph H. Collins services Monday
Funeral services for Ralph Hobson Collins, 80, West Plains, will be held at 2 p.m. Monday in the Rose Chapel, Robertson-Drago Funeral Home, West Plains, witht he Rev. Goldman Hampton officiating.
Mr. Collins died at 6:50 p.m. Thursday in West Plains Memorial Hospital. He was born March 8, 1899, in Howell County, the son of the late David and Jane Collins.
He had spent his entire life in theis area where he had been engaged in farming. On Oct 15, 1918, he ws married at Siloam springs to Dora Cook. Mr. Collns had been a long time member of the Baptist faith with his membership being in the Oak Grove Baptist Church near Pomona. He was a member of the Modern Woodmen of America, served as a director on the Richars R-5 and Star School boards for several years and for four years was a justice of the peace at Grimmett.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Dora Collins, West Plains; three daughters, Geneva Haddock, Cabool; Hazel Dollins, West Plains; Ruth DeVore, Pomona; six grandchildren; and one sister, Mrs. Lottie Hopkins, Winfield Kan.
He is preceded in death by his parents, four brothers and three sisters.
Interment will be in Howell Memorial Park Cemetery.