posted April 24, 2006
Marion Austin Collins, 75, died Saturday, April 22, 2006, in a Chattanooga hospital.
The son of the late Calvin Buford and Willa Mae Austin Collins, he was a U.S. Air Force veteran. He retired from the service in August of 1971 after serving the Air Force in England, Scotland, Japan, Hawaii and the Marshall Islands.
He was preceded in death by his brother, Calvin Buford Collins Jr., and sister, Betty Joe Dobson.
He is survived by his wife, Viola Collins, of South Pittsburg; niece, Debbie Hicks; nephew, Stephen Dobson; stepchildren, Patricia Newell and husband, Richard, of Indian Trail, N.C., Diane Howie and husband, Eddie, of Matthews, N.C., and Jackie Kee, of Charlotte, N.C.; and special friends and caregivers, Pete and Cordie Cagle, of South Pittsburg.
Funeral services will be conducted at 11 a.m. CDT Tuesday, at the South Pittsburg Chapel of Rogers Funeral Home with the Rev. David Hoschar officiating. Interment will be in Beene-Raulston Cemetery.
Friends may send condolences online at rogersfuneralhome.com.
The family will receive friends from 6-8 p.m. CDT Monday, at Rogers Funeral Home in South Pittsburg.
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