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Willie E. COLLINS

Highland Park Cemetery
Hutchinson County,
Texas

Willie E.
1908-1976

Pearl E.
1911-1985

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Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley

*Obituary Willie
Willie E. Collins, 67, of 207 Coolidge, died Saturday at 7 at North Plains Hospital.

Funeral services will be held Monday at 2 p.m. in the Church of God, with Rev. William R. Collins, pastor, officiating. Burial will follow in Highland Park Cemetery, under the direction of Simpson's Funeral Home.

Mr. Collins was born June 24, 1908, in Dixie, Okla. He was a pioneer resident of Borger, having come here in 1926. He was a retired dirt contractor.

He is survived by his wife Pearl, of the home, by three sons, Kenneth, Eddie and Gerald, all of Borger; and by two daughters, Mrs. Wanda Anderson, Borger and Mrs. Delores Sullivan, of One Thousand Oaks, Calif.

Also surviving are three brothers, Raymond of Plainview, and E.J. and Gavins, both of Albuquerque, New Mexico.

(Published in Borger News Herald, February 29, 1976)
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Texas, Death Certificates, 1903–1982
Name: Willie Ellis Collins
Birth Date: 24 Jun 1908
Birth Place: Dixie, Oklahoma
Gender: Male
Race: Caucasian (White)
Residence: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas
Father: William Lee Collins
Mother: Rosie Hopkins
Age at Death: 67
Death Date: 28 Feb 1976
Death Place: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas, USA

*Obituary Pearl
Pearl E. Collins, 74, died today at Golden Plains Community Hospital.

Services are pending with Alexander Funeral Directors.

She was a member of the Franklin Street Church of God.

She came to Borger in 1928 from Oklahoma.

She was preceeded in death by her husband, Willie, in 1976, and one son, Lloyd in 1953.

She is survived by three sons, Kenneth Collins of Borger, Gerald Collins of Borger and Eddie Collins of Lubbock; two daughters, Wanda Anderson of Borger and Delores Sullivan of Conoga Park, Calif.; one sister, Thelma Hopkins of Borger; one brother, Ray Reynolds of Ringland, Okla.; 11 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.

(Published in Borger News-Herald, Friday, October 25, 1985)

Contributed on 5/26/21

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Submitted: 5/26/21 • Approved: 5/29/21 • Last Updated: 6/1/21 • R421849-G421849-S3

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