Obituary of Gennette Freeman Collins, LaSalle Parish, La.




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Submitted by Kathy LeMay Kelly, P.O. Box 219, Trout, La. 71371

Thank You to the Jena Times - Olla Tullos Signal and the LaSalle Parish
Library for allowing the following to be add to the Archives.

From The Jena Times - Olla Tullos Signal
Microfilm located at the LaSalle Parish Library in Jena.

DATE: Wednesday, October 25, 2000 
Page 16A

HEADLINE: Area Deaths

SUB-HEADLINE: Gennette Freeman Collins

Gennette Freeman Collins, 53, of Jena, died at 4:15 p.m., Saturday, October
21, 2000, at the LaSalle General Hospital in Jena following a brief illness.

She was co-owner and operator of Tiny Tot Nursery in Jena for 16 years and was
a member of Midway Baptist Church where she was an active choir member and
Sunday School teacher.

She was born August 6, 1947, in Richton, Mississippi to the union of Sam and
Ora Boyd Freeman.

Services were held at 2 p.m., Monday, Oct. 23, at Midway Baptist Church near
Jena with the Revs. Rick Feazell and Joey Paul officiating.

Interment followed in theHailey Cemetery of Nebo under direction of Kinner and
Stevens Funeral Home of Jena.

Survivors include her husband, Glen Collins of Jena; one son, Cody Glen Colins
of Jena; one step-daughter, Ann Collins McClendon of west Monroe; one step-
son, Michael Collins of West Monroe; two sisters, Velma Ainsworth of Houma and
Thelma Frierfon of Spring, Texas; two brothers, Charles Freeman of Hattisburg,
Ms., and Tommy Freeman of Petal, Ms.; and two step-grandchildren.

Pallbearers were Midway Baptist Church deacons Cleveland Poole, Wayne
Richardson, W. G. Wilson, Walter Craig, Fred Powell, and Andy Gresham.