BUD COLLINS

SIKESTON -- Funeral for F.F. "Bud" Collins of Sikeston will be held at 11 a.m. today at Ponder Funeral Home. The Rev. Larry Davis will officiate. Burial will be in Garden of Memories Cemetery.

Collins, 77, died Tuesday, Feb. 16, 1999, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau.

He was born Oct. 10, 1921, at Salcedo, daughter of Foy F. and Fleita Edmondson Collins. He and Dorothy Keeton were married May 3, 1980.

Collins was owner and operator of Collins Construction Co. He was a member of Calvary Temple Church. He was a veteran of World War II.

Survivors include his wife; two sons, Terry and Mike Collins; a daughter, Joni Kruger; a brother, Gene Collins; two sisters, Gayle Collins and Ruth Ziegenhorn, all of Sikeston; nine grandchildren; and a great-grandchild.

He was preceded in death by a son, a brother, and a sister.