Rogers Co. Obit for: Velma Angeline (Crain) Collins
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1/25/2003

Velma Angeline (Crain) Collins

Funeral service for Velma Angeline Collins will be 2 p.m., Monday, Jan. 27, 
2003, at the First Assembly of God. Rev. Curtis Owens will officiate. 

Burial will follow at Woodlawn Cemetery, under direction of Musgrove-
Merriott-Smith Funeral Service. Visitation will beat the funeral home Sunday 
1-6 p.m. and Monday 9-11 a.m.

Velma died Wed., Jan. 22, at her home at the age of 100. 

The daughter of Charles B. and Martha Jane Crain was born June 11, 1902, 
in Flint, Oklahoma Indian Territory. 

At the age of 15 Velma moved to Claremore. 

In 1918, she married David Newton (Newt) Collins in Mayes County, and they 
made their home in Claremore. 

During World War II, Velma worked at Douglas, and later as a clerk at 
McClellan's Department Store in Claremore. 

She attended First Assembly of God and enjoyed quilting, gardening, and 
fishing. 

Velma celebrated her 100th birthday party in June and received a commemorative 
plaque and a citation of congratulations from Senator Stratton Taylor and 
greetings from President george W. Bush and Congressman Brad Carson.

Velma is preceded in death by her husband, Newt, parents, Charles and Martha 
Crain, daughters, Edith Holland, Joyce Turman, and Lucille Marshall Bernard, 
brothers, James Power, Guy Everett, Fountain Lee, Clella Albertis, William 
Andrew and Oren Ransom, sisters, Alta Belle, Mary Lezette and Clercy Emma 
Bertha,and grandchildren, Johnny Marshall, Billy Max Turman, Bonita Larson 
and Sonja Marshall.

Survivors include her children, Bill Collins and wife, Betty, Pauline Warren 
and husband, Haskell, and Louise Gardner all of Claremore, grandchildren: 
Jim Holland of Broken Arrow, Samuel Turman of Claremore, Larry and Gary 
Warren of Claremore, Rick Warren of Florida, Tony Warren of Colorado, Linda 
Ewton and Vernon Marshall of Claremore, David Gardner of Nebraska, Phillip 
Gardner of Missouri, Anita Horner of Claremore, Colleen Robertson of Texas, 
Newt Collins of Tecumseh, and Vickie Myrick of Catoosa; 40 great-grandchildren, 
and 48 great-great-grandchildren.

Memorial contributions may be made to First Assembly of God, P.O. Box 56, 
Claremore, OK 74017 or Hospice of Green Country, 1005 W Archer Dr, Claremore, 
OK 74017.

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