Obituary: Rock County, Wisconsin: Bertha COLLINS

************************************************************************
Submitted by Ruth Ann Montgomery, <rmontgomery@cishome.com> February 2007

© All rights reserved. 
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
************************************************************************
After a long illness, death called Mrs. Walter Collins, in St. Annes
hospital, Chicago, last Thursday. The remains were brought to Evansville
Saturday evening and taken to the home of Mrs. Emelene Collins, on Franklin
Street, the mother of Mr. Collins. Funeral services were held Sunday at the
Baptist church, Rev. Charles E. Coon, of the Methodist Episcopal church,
officiating. Interment was at Maple Hill cemetery.

Mrs. Collins was formerly Miss Bertha Andrew, of Magnolia, at which place
she was born May 2, 1868. She was married to Walter Collins September 15,
1889.

She is survived by Mr. Collins; a daughter, Ethel; and four brothers,
Lucius, of Beloit; Truman, of Chicago; Bayard, of Footville, and Wallace of
Magnolia.

While a resident of Magnolia the deceased was an active member of the
Advent church and after removing to Chicago she was a proimnent member of
the First Baptist Church of Iriving Park.

April 27, 1916, Evansville Review, p. 1, col. 2, Evansville, Wisconsin