Dr. George Colvin Collins, 71, for more than forty years a physician, died at 1:50 a.m. Tuesday in his home in Wheatcroft. He had been in failing health for several months and returned last week from an Evansville hospital where he had been a patient at different times.
Dr. Collins, a graduate of the University of Kentucky, began his practice in Shady Grove in 1908 and moved to Wheatcroft in 1914.
He was born near Wheatcroft, a son of Wick and Kate Young Collins. He was married in 1910 to Miss Mamie Stallions.
Survivors are the wife; a daughter, Mrs. Jack Morgan, Wheatcroft; a granddaughter, Beverly Elaine Morgan; a brother, Jerry Collins, near Clay; and seven sisters, Mrs. Alice McGill, Woodriver, Ill., Mrs. Walter Guess, of Marion, Mrs. Albert Hazel, of Providence, Mrs. Jack Hill and Mrs. Jackson Brown, of Clay, Mrs. Julia Strait, of Cassadega, N.Y., and Mrs. Hamner Wallace, Wheatcroft.
Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Rock Spring church, with the Rev. Bob Wallace officiating.
Burial was in Rock Spring cemetery.
The Journal-Enterprise
Providence, Kentucky
Thursday, December 16, 1948
Dr. George Colvin Collins, 71, for more than forty years a physician, died at 1:50 a.m. Tuesday in his home in Wheatcroft. He had been in failing health for several months and returned last week from an Evansville hospital where he had been a patient at different times.
Dr. Collins, a graduate of the University of Kentucky, began his practice in Shady Grove in 1908 and moved to Wheatcroft in 1914.
He was born near Wheatcroft, a son of Wick and Kate Young Collins. He was married in 1910 to Miss Mamie Stallions.
Survivors are the wife; a daughter, Mrs. Jack Morgan, Wheatcroft; a granddaughter, Beverly Elaine Morgan; a brother, Jerry Collins, near Clay; and seven sisters, Mrs. Alice McGill, Woodriver, Ill., Mrs. Walter Guess, of Marion, Mrs. Albert Hazel, of Providence, Mrs. Jack Hill and Mrs. Jackson Brown, of Clay, Mrs. Julia Strait, of Cassadega, N.Y., and Mrs. Hamner Wallace, Wheatcroft.
Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Rock Spring church, with the Rev. Bob Wallace officiating.
Burial was in Rock Spring cemetery.
The Journal-Enterprise
Providence, Kentucky
Thursday, December 16, 1948
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Thomas M. Collins
1867–1945
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Drue Ella Collins Johnson
1868–1945
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Susan A Collins Hill
1871–1964
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Hamner Mahulda Collins Wallace
1873–1955
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Alice Belle Collins McGill
1875–1967
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Mrs Eliza Emily Collins Hazel
1879–1973
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Jerry M Collins
1882–1966
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Matilda Jackson Collins Brown
1886–1979
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Julia Franses Collins Straight
1887–1970
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Sallie Lillian Collins Hardin Guess
1890–1964
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