Obits: COLLINS, J. W. (LANIER) MRS.
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Date submitted:  August 7, 2006, 1:54 pm
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Winn County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....Collins, Mrs. Lanier  December 18, 1961

Winn Parish Enterprise
   Funeral services for Mrs. J. W.(Lanier) Collins, 66, a resident of the 
Tullos Highway, who died unexpectedly at her home Monday night, were held at 2 
p.m. Wednesday, December 20 at the First Methodist Church with the paster, 
Rev. R. H. Staples officiating.  She has been in ill health several months.
   Burial was in Old Union cemetery under direction of Edmonds Funeral Home of 
Jonesboro.
   Acting as pallbearers were Joe D. Burns, James G. Russell, W. J. Austin, J. 
D. Holmes, Dudley Shell, and Rufus Rogers.
   Mrs. Collins was a native of Lisbon, La., and came to Winn parish as a 
teacher at the Pleasant Hill School.  It was here that she met and married 
J. W. Collins of that community.  She has been active in church and club work, 
and was a member and Sunday School teacher at the First Methodist Church of 
Winnfield.
   She is survived by her husband, J. W. Collins; two sons H. W. Collins of 
Ida, La. and M. L. Collins of Winnfield; one daughter, Mrs. Louis Moore of 
Jonesboro; seven grandchildren; a brother, C. E. Patton of Lisbon; three 
sisters, Mrs. J. T. Robinson, Mrs. Blanche Hensley, and Mrs. W. W. Nickolas of 
Homer.