1956 and 1978 Obituary for Collins, Sterling and Beasley, 1975, Pike Co., Ky ********************************************************************** USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net Transcribed by: Jan JanBerger@aol.com Date: April 1998 *********************************************************************** OBIT: Presley Collins, 1956, Pike Co From the Phelps Funeral Home, Phelps, Ky (Date of Death: December 05, 1978) Presley Collins Funeral Scheduled (Date of Death: December 18, 1956) FREEBURN (Kentucky) - Funeral services for Presley Collins, 77, of Freeburn, will be held at 11 a.m. tomorrow at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Sterling Beasley, of Freeburn. The Reverend Harrison Miller will officiate. Burial will be in the Grassy Cemetery at Jamboree under direction of the Justice Funeral Home. Collins, a retired farmer, died at 11 a.m. Tuesday at the home of Mrs. Beasley after an illness lasting one month. Born in McDowell County, West Virginia, he was a son of John and Haley Collins. He was a member of the Church of God in Jesus' Name. His wife, Mrs. Ida Collins, died in 1947. Survivors include three sons, Lazarus Collins, of Jamboree; Paris Collins and Presley Collins Jr., both of Richmond, Va.; six daughters, Mrs. Sterling Beasley of Freeburn; Mrs. Priscilla Beasley, of Fremont, Ohio; Mrs. Lois Estepp, of Jamboree; Mrs. Alice Deaton of Norfolk, Virginia; Mrs. Virgie Edwards, and Mrs. Arvaline Peatross, both of Richmond, Virginia; two brothers Oliver Collins of Grundy, Virginia; and Huyne Collins, of Matewan, West Virginia; 42 grandchildren and 18 great-grandchildren. he body was removed to the home of Mrs. Sterling Beasley yesterday afternoon. OBIT: Collins, 1978, Pike (Date of Death: December 05, 1978) Lazarus Collins, 61, of Jamboree, Kentucky, died Tuesday morning at 10:00 O'clock at his home of a long illness. Born March 19, 1917 in Pike County, he was the sone of late Press and Ida Estep Collins. He was a retired miner from the Kentland- Elkhorn Coal Company at Biggs, Kentucky. Survivors include the widow, Phebe Estep Collins; six sons Lawrence Collins, Lynn, Alabama; Clayton Collins, Cicero, Illinois, Clinton, Clifford, Theodore, and David Lee, all of Jamboree; six daughters Inis Coleman and Ruth Bowling, both of Freeburn; Emogene Collins, Jamboree; Irene Coleman, Aurora, Illinois; Ruby Stanley, Falls Church, Virginia; Pearl Amos, South Carolina; two brothers Press and Paris Collins, both of Richmond, Virginia; six sisters Eunice Beasley and Priscilla Beasley, both of Fremont, Ohio; Virgie Edwards and Alice Beaton (Deaton?), both of Jamboree; Arveline Peatross of Baton Rouge, Louisiana; and 14 grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at the Church of God at Jamboree, Friday at 1 p.m. Revs. O. A. Stump and Darius Casey will officiate. Burial will follow in the family cemetery at Grassy. The body will be taken to the church where friends may call this evening. Phelps Funeral Home of Phelps, Kentucky, is in charge of the arrangements. OBIT: Beasley, 1975, Pike From "The News Messenger" in Fremont, Ohio. Tuesday Feb. 18, 1975 Sterling Beasley, 75, died Monday at 2:55 P.M. in the Memorial Hospital. He had been a patient for two days. Mr. Beasley, a member of the Pentecostal Church, had been a coal miner and carpenter until 1958 when he moved to Fremont. He retired in 1968 as an employee of the Cresent Manufacturing Co. Born in Pike Co, KY, April 29, 1899, His late parents were Andrew Jackson and Polly Ann (Adkins) Beasley. He married his wife, Eunice, Dec. 24, 1919, in Steele, KY. Surviving are his widow; sons, William Mac, Ackworth, GA and Therman, Fostoria, daughters Hattie Cloud and Janetta Berger both Fremont. Corenia Harris, Red Jacket, West Virgina, Lilly Wunder, Vermillion and Henrietta Denslow, Sandusky; 22 grandchildren; six great grandchildren; two brothers Wrack L., Fremont and Mack, Majestic, KY. Two sons, one daughter and a sister preceded Him. Friends may call today after 7 p.m. and Wednesday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. at the Karlovetz Funeral Home, where services will be at 1 p.m. Thursday. The Revs. B. H. Miller and Dallas Miller from Honaker, VA will officiate. Burial will be in Restlawn Memory Gardens, Huron, Ohio.