The funeral for Mrs. Elaine Collins will be Friday at 11 a.m. in the chapel of Imes-Miller Funeral Home. Bro. Matt Williams will officiate. Burial will follow in the Murray Memorial Gardens. Visitation will be at the funeral home from 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday. Online condolences may be left at www.imesmiller.com.
Mrs. Collins, 86, Murray, died Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010, at 2:46 a.m. at Murray-Calloway County Hospital. A homemaker, she was a member of Owensboro Chapter of Homemakers, West Fork Baptist Church and the Women's Missionary Union.
Preceding her in death were her husband, Johnny (J.O.) Collins; her parents, Lee Roy Barnett and Jessie Mae Weston Barnett; and two brothers, Glen Barnett and Lee Roy (Junior) Barnett Jr.
Survivors include one son, Gary Collins and wife, Kandace, Kirksey; four brothers, Oliver Barnett, Max Barnett and wife, Sondra, Dale Barnett and wife, Barbara, and J.L. Barnett and wife, Barbara, all of Murray; four sisters, Bernice Phelps and husband, Dolphus, Louisville, Rhonda Wrye and husband, Gene, Canton, Maxine Suttes and husband, Bob, and Rachel Wolske, all of Michigan; four grandchildren, Greg Collins and wife, Regina, New Concord, Lt. John Tyler Collins, USMC, Enid, Okla., Brittany L. Collins, Monroe, La., and Caroline Clark Collins, Murray; one great-grandchild.