Individual Details

Mr. Thomas Collins, Jr., 75, of Hamburg died Friday, September 3, 1999, at the Beverly Health Care nursing home in Hamburg. A Hamburg native and a former resident of New Iberia, LA, he had lived in Hamburg since 1988. He was a retired oil well driller, an U. S. Army veteran of World War II, and a member of the Promise Land Missionary Baptist Church. He was preceded in death by his parents, T. T. and Della Kelley Collins; four brothers and four sisters. Survivors include a brother, Jesse Collins, and a sister, Dorothy Griffith, both of Hamburg, and 16 nieces and nephews. Funeral services were at 2 p.m. Saturday, September 4, in the Promise Land Baptist Church with Revs. Kelly Clark and Jeff Alderman officiating. Pallbearers were nephews Steve, Larry, Richard, Ray and Ronnie Collins, Charles Stell, S. T. Blackman and Mike Griffith. Burial followed services at the Promise Land Cemetery, directed by Jones Funeral Home of Hamburg. Memorials may be made to the Promise Land Cemetery Association, c/o Mrs. JoAnn Sullivan, 318 Ashley Road 131, Hamburg, AR 71646.

Birth	5 Sep 1923	Ashley County, Arkansas
Death	3 Sep 1999	Hamburg, Ashley County, Arkansas
Burial	4 Sep 1999	Promise Land Cemetery, Hamburg, Ashley County, Arkansas

Father	Thomas Thornton Collins (1876 - 1957)
Mother	Dulla Martha Kelley (1880 - 1956)
Sibling	Robert Andrew Collins (1896 - 1917)
Sibling	Millie Frances Collins (1901 - 1986)
Sibling	Lula Mae Collins (1902 - 1992)
Sibling	Herman Collins (1903 - 1907)
Sibling	Ollie Bell Collins (1904 - 1984)
Sibling	Ola Collins (1906 - 1993)
Sibling	Roy Collins (1915 - 1986)
Sibling	Jesse Dean Collins (1917 - 2002)
Sibling	Clifford Collins (1918 - 1981)
Sibling	Donald Collins (1921 - 1980)
Sibling	Dorothy Ann Collins (1921 - 2015)