Funeral services will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Wednesday, August 21, 2019 at the Billy M. King-Colonial Chapel Funeral Home for Edna Clotie Johnson Collins, 92 of Collins, who went to her eternal home with her Lord on Monday, August 19, 2019 at her residence.

Reverend Grover Gunn and Reverend Dennis Campbell will officiate at the services with interment to follow in the Collins City Cemetery.  Special music will be provided by Mrs. Rachel Meyers Yoder and Mr. James Arrington Goff.  Billy M. King-Colonial Chapel Funeral Home in Collins will be in charge of the arrangements.

Visitation will be held from 9:00 a.m. until 11:00 a.m. on Wednesday, August 21, 2019 at the Billy M. King-Colonial Chapel Funeral Home in Collins.

Pallbearers will be her sons-in-law and grandsons, Russell Love, Tommy Bryant, Cape Jones, Collin Jones, William Love, and Riley Baggett.

Mrs. Collins was born on April 5, 1927 in Brookhaven, Mississippi to Walter Harrison Johnson and Ethel Jane Blackwell Johnson.  Mrs. Tee, as all her friends called her, grew up in Collins where she lived her entire life.  Tee married James Ray Collins, her neighbor and high school sweetheart, December 22, 1945 and they celebrated seventy three years of marriage.  She was totally devoted to her family and always put them first, before herself.  She led her children to the Lord and prayed for her entire family without ceasing.  Her greatest joy was keeping a clean home and making certain she always had food cooked to offer to anyone who came in for a visit.  Hospitality was her spiritual gift.

Mrs. Collins, as she was proudly known at work, served as a legal secretary for over thirty years before retiring to enjoy being at home and helping her husband around the house.  She was a devoted member of the McDonald Chapel Presbyterian Church until her health declined.  She had struggled with Alzheimer's disease for over twelve years, and most recently, an injury from a fall.

She was preceded in death by her parents, three brothers, Odis, Gordon, and Walter (Cooter) Johnson, her in-laws, Mr. and Mrs. Tell Collins, and a granddaughter, Anna Caroline Love.

Survivors include her loving husband of seventy three years, James Ray Collins of Collins; two daughters, Sandy Jones Bryant (Tommy) of Collins, and Amanda Collins Love (Russell) of Diamondhead; four grandchildren, Cape Jones (Elizabeth), Collin Jones (Angela), William Love (Brittany), and AmyCatherine Love Baggett (Riley); and five great granddaughters, Bailey Jones, Ansley Jones, Ella Jo Jones, Emma Jane Jones, and Collins Love.

The family is forever grateful for the love and care provided by Mother's sitters, Ann, Eva, Judy and Wanda, all of whom she came to love dearly.

Family and friends may sign an online guestbook at www.billymkingcolonialchapel.com