Sept. 4, 1984
Tommy Collins services today
Funeral services for Thommy Jay Collins, 91, Pottersville, were at 2 p.m. today in the Rose Chapel, Robertson-Drago Funeral Home, West Plains, with Evangelist Robert Jackson officiating.
Mr. Collins died at 9:55 p.m. Friday in St. Francis Hospital, Mtn. View. He was born May 16, 1893, at Dora, the son of the late William and Oma Nancy Parsons Collins.
He received his education in the schools of Ozark Co., and on July 3, 1924, he was married at Pottersville to Clora Edith May. Mr. Collins had been a farmer most of his life, and was of the Church of Christ Faith.
Survivors include his wife, Clora Collins, of the home; five children, Bertha Lou Richardson, Caulfield, Ruby Gertrude Hoopler, Twin Falls, Idaho, Bobby Collins, Dora, Imogene Belcher, Pottersville, and Rosa Lee Wood, Twin Falls, Idaho; 20 grandchildren; 40 great-grandchildren; and a number of nieces and nephews.
He is preceded in death by his parents, one granddaughter, three sisters, one brother and two half brothers.
Burial was in Ledbetter Cemetery.