Mitchell County  Georgia Obituaries Della Collins 1917

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Obituary of Della Collins 
as written in "The Camilla Enterprise" dated 24 Aug 1917.  


On last Saturday, 18 Aug 1917, at 4:00 AM the little village of Flint was shocked 
and deeply grieved when the news spread abroad that Miss Della Collins was dead.  The 
end came at her home.  This news was soon heralded throughout the county and brought 
sadness to many hearts for Miss Della Collins was widely known and loved by a large 
circle of friends and relatives.  She had been in feeble health for several months and her 
family and most intimate friends new the serious nature of her illness, but all were hoping 
for the time when she would be restored to her usual activity.  Last summer she had an 
attack of typhoid fever, which dreaded disease made such inroads upon her constitution, 
that she was not able to overcome, and after months of patient lingering, she was 
summoned to her eternal reward.  Miss Della Collins was a woman of unusual 
capabilities and activities, these were added to by a splendid education and extensive 
travel.  Her consideration and generosity made her a criterion type of womanhood, which 
fact impressed itself upon all with whom she came in contact. For all these attributes her 
friends, her community and her associates will greatly miss her, and her death means to 
them a destructive loss.  Funeral services were conducted Sunday, 19 Aug 1917, at 10:00 
AM at Oakview cemetery by her pastor, Rev J. I. D. Miller, the pall bearers were Messrs. 
G. M. Cochran, M. O. Davis, G. C. Smith and Gerald Bird of Flint, Col R. J. Bacon and 
Mr. Bob Cowan of Baconton.  From here a concourse of sorrowing friends witnessed the 
earthly end of a splendid woman, one whose place cannot be easily be filled.  In this sad 
hour the Enterprise extends its tear of sympathy.