Smyth County, Virginia, Obituaries:  Bessie Irene Collins

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Bristol Herald Courier
Wednesday, March 19, 2003

Bessie Irene Collins

SALTVILLE -- Mrs. Bessie Irene Collins, 63, died Monday, March 17, 2003, in
Smyth County Community Hospital. She was a member of the Deliverance Pentecostal
Holiness Church in Aistrop Hollow. 

Survivors: her husband, Paul "Bossie" Collins, Saltville; one son, Paul Collins
Jr., Saltville; one daughter, Angela Lynn Fields, Abingdon; one brother, John
Henry Harris, Marion; and three sisters, Jenean Havens, Saltville, Rosa Marie
Roark, Saltville and Elsie McElraft, Spartanburg, S.C.

Funeral services will be conducted at 8 p.m. Wednesday, March 19, 2003, at
Henderson Funeral Chapel with Rev. Tracy Puckett and Rev. Bob Briggs
officiating. Graveside services will be conducted at 11 a.m. Thursday morning at
Mount Pleasant Cemetery. Pallbearers will be Ronnie Collins Jr., Anthony
Collins, Ricky Collins, Jamie Collins, Bill Davenport, David Hayden and Robert
Anderson. The family will receive friends Wednesday evening from 6 until 8 p.m.
just prior to the funeral service.

D.R. Henderson Funeral Home of Saltville is serving the Collins family.