February 24, 2001

LOETA COLLINS

EAST PRAIRIE, Mo. -- Graveside service for Loeta Collins of St. Louis will be held at 11:30 a.m. today at East Prairie Memorial Park Cemetery. Dempsey Collins will officiate. Shelby Funeral Home in East Prairie is in charge of arrangements. Collins, 72, died Thursday, Feb. 22, 2001, at Garden View Nursing Center in Valley Park, Mo...

EAST PRAIRIE, Mo. -- Graveside service for Loeta Collins of St. Louis will be held at 11:30 a.m. today at East Prairie Memorial Park Cemetery. Dempsey Collins will officiate.

Shelby Funeral Home in East Prairie is in charge of arrangements.

Collins, 72, died Thursday, Feb. 22, 2001, at Garden View Nursing Center in Valley Park, Mo.

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She was born Nov. 30, 1928, in Formosa, Ark., daughter of Dempsey and Faye Halbrook Childress. She and John W. Collins were married Aug. 21, 1954. He died April 4, 1963.

Collins was a teacher at East Prairie Schools from 1950 to 1957. She was a member of the Church of Christ.

Survivors include a sister, Dealy Collins of St. Louis.

She was preceded in death by her parents.

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