Obituaries: Jennie Dunn Beard Collins, 1946, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: July 18, 1946 Winn Parish Enterprise

Last Rites Held Tuesday, July 16 For Mrs. Collins

After a long illness Mrs. A. P. Collins, 83, died at the St. Francis
Sanitarium, Monroe, Monday, July 15, 1946.  Funeral services were held Tuesday
afternoon at 2 o'clock at Old Union Church with interment in the Old Union
Cemetery.  Rev. H. H. McBride and Rev. Fred Flurry officiated.

Acting as pallbearers were grandsons of the deceased: John Jones, Homer
McMurry, Lawson Miller, Bill Beard, Henry Collins, and Doug Hinton.

A native of Beauregard, Mississippi, Mrs. Collins was the former Miss Jennie
Dunn.  She first married a Mr. Beard and after his death married Dr. A. P.
Collins of Route 2, Winnfield.  She was a member of the First Baptist Church
of Winnfield.  Since last March Mrs. Collins had made her home with her son,
Dr. Sotus A. Collins of Monroe.

Mrs. Collins was the mother of eight children: Grady Collins of McGee, Ark.;
J. W. Collins of Route 2, Winnfield; Dr. Sotus A. Collins, Monroe; Sam Collins
(deceased); Mrs. Pearl Montgomery, Bellwood; Mrs. Annie Mae Hinton, Cotton
Valley; Julius Beard, Stonewall; Mrs. Lizzie Miller, Winnfield.  She also
leaves three stepchildren, Mrs. Lee Adams, Columbia; Mrs. J. A. McMurry and
Mrs. Mary Smith, Route 2, Winnfield; and one brother, Jack Dunn, Pineville.