Claiborne Parish Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....Collins, Lanier 
Patton December 18, 1961

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Winn Parish Enterprise  December 1961
Funeral services for Mrs. J. W. 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 pastor, 
Rev. R.H. Staples officiating.  She has been in ill health several months.

Burial was in the 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 all of Homer.

Additional Comments:
She was the daughter of Charles Samuel Lee and Katherine Luke Henry of 
Lisbon.  She is the great-grandmother of the submitter.

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