OBIT: Presley Collins, 1956, Pike Co >From the Phelps Funeral Home, Phelps, Ky (Date of Death: December 05, 1978) Presley Collins Funeral Scheduled (Date of Death: December 18, 1956) FREEBURN (Kentucky) - Funeral services for Presley Collins, 77, of Freeburn, will be held at 11 a.m. tomorrow at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Sterling Beasley, of Freeburn. The Reverend Harrison Miller will officiate. Burial will be in the Grassy Cemetery at Jamboree under direction of the Justice Funeral Home. Collins, a retired farmer, died at 11 a.m. Tuesday at the home of Mrs. Beasley after an illness lasting one month. Born in McDowell County, West Virginia, he was a son of John and Haley Collins. He was a member of the Church of God in Jesus' Name. His wife, Mrs. Ida Collins, died in 1947. Survivors include three sons, Lazarus Collins, of Jamboree; Paris Collins and Presley Collins Jr., both of Richmond, Va.; six daughters, Mrs. Sterling Beasley of Freeburn; Mrs. Priscilla Beasley, of Fremont, Ohio; Mrs. Lois Estepp, of Jamboree; Mrs. Alice Deaton of Norfolk, Virginia; Mrs. Virgie Edwards, and Mrs. Arvaline Peatross, both of Richmond, Virginia; two brothers Oliver Collins of Grundy, Virginia; and Huyne Collins, of Matewan, West Virginia; 42 grandchildren and 18 great-grandchildren. The body was removed to the home of Mrs. Sterling Beasley yesterday afternoon. File submitted by: Jan Berger 25 Aug 1997