Mitchell County GaArchives Obituaries.....Ralph Sr. Collins ?
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Albany Herald
Ralph L. Collins Sr.
Farmer  
  Camilla – Ralph Lynwood Collins Sr., 68 of Pelham died Tuesday at John D. 
Archbold Hospital.
  The funeral will be at 3: p.m. today at Timmons Funeral Home Chapel with 
burial in Pinecrest Memory Gardens. The Revs. Carl Stewart and Ronnie Morrell 
will officiate.
  A native of Mitchell County, Mr. Collins was a farmer and a member of Lake 
Pleasant Baptist  Church. He was sheriff of Mitchell County for two years, a 
chairman of the county commissioners and member of Pelham Masonic Lodge No. 
312, where he served as Past Worshipful Master. He served on the Thomas Tech 
Board, DEFACS board and Mitchell County Farm Bureau. He was awarded the Paul 
Harris Fellow and an honorary state trooper.
  Survivors include his wife, Joy D. Collins of Pelham; a son, Ralph L. 
Collins, Jr. of Pelham; four daughters, Joy Lynn C. Pollock of Camilla, Morri 
C.  Jones of Palantine, Ill., Lisa C. Whitfield of  Meigs and Dee C. Goss of 
Albany; two brothers, John T. Collins, Jr. and Marcus Collins, Sr., both of 
Pelham; a sister Jean Odom of Glenneville; 16 grandchildren and a great-
grandchild. 


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