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Wilma Jane Collins
Wilma Jane Collins, age 66, of Pomona, Mo. died at 3:05 a.m., Saturday, March 9, 2002 in Ozarks Medical Center, West Plains.
Mrs. Colins was born Feb. 11, 1936 at Vanzant, Mo. the daughter of Edward Cornelius Tooley and the late Maxine Clark Tooley.
On August 21, 1954, she was married at Wilder, Idaho to Paul M. Collins. Mrs. Collins had been employed at Marathon Electrick, West Plains.
She is survived by her husband, Paul Collins, of the family home; twelve children, James Colins, Kansas City, Mo., Donna Cook and husband, Albert, Peace Valley, Mo., Paula McDaniel, Koshkonong, Mo., Kathy Burnett, Willow Springs, Mo., Karen Clinton and husband, Bill, Twin Bridges, Mo., Keith Collins and wife, Nicki, Pomona, Mo., Judy Redd, West Plains, Mo., Gary Collins and wife, Jane, Venita, Okla., Lora Colins Twin Bridges, Mo., Sheila Brashers and husband Bill, Pomona, Mo., Darren Collins, Pomona, Mo. and Shane Collins and wife, Janice, Caulfield, Mo.; thirty-four grandchildren including two special grandsons, Tony and Jamie; seventeen great grandchildren; her father, Edward Tooley, Parma, Idaho; two brothers, Clifton Tooley and wife, Virginia, Wilder, Idaho and Kenneth Tooley, Emmett, Idaho, six sister, Nellie Dennis and husband, Larence, Wilder, Idaho, Della Dennis and husband Jerry, Drury, Mo., Alma Reed and husband, Paul, Ward, Ark., Carol Collins and husband, Jimmy, Parma, Idaho, Mary Padilla, Parma, Idaho and Margaret Lint, Boise, Idaho; her mother-in-law, Ida Collins, West Plains, Mo.; four brothers-in-law; and several nieces and nephews.
Mrs. Collins is preceded in death by her mother, one granddaughter, one brother, one sister, her father-in-law, Larkin Collins and on brother-in-law.
She was of the Baptist faith.
Funeral services for Wilma Jane Collins were held at 2 p.m., Wed., March 13, 2002 in the Rose Chapel of the Robertson-Drago Funeral Home with interment in Howell Memorial Park Cemetery under the direction of the Robertson-Drago Funeral Home.