JAMES G. COLLINS

ROLLING FORK Services for James G. “Mike” Collins will be at 11 a.m. today at First Baptist Church in Rolling Fork with the Revs. R.E. Kyzar and Millard Caulder officiating. Burial will follow at Mound Cemetery.

Mr. Collins died Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2001, at Mississippi Baptist Medical Center in Jackson. He was 73.

Mr. Collins was born in Pine Bluff, Ark. He was a member of the Athletic Officials Association basketball and baseball. He was an Eagle Scout and a Mason.

During the 1950s, he served in the Army Reserve and was the assistant fire chief of the first volunteer fire department in Rolling Fork. He was a member of the Board of Directors of Sharkey-Issaquena Academy and was employed for 46 years as a Gulf Oil distributor and a Gulf and BP Jobber. He was a member of the Mississippi Petroleum Association, the National Petroleum Association, GOMA and BPMO.

He was also a lifetime deacon and member of the First Baptist Church of Rolling Fork.

Mr. Collins was preceded in death by his parents, Thomas Jefferson and Opal Johnson Collins.

He is survived by his wife, Polly D. Collins of Rolling Fork; two daughters, Sharon Elizabeth Bass of Rolling Fork and Kaye Stuart of Brandon; his twin brother, Don Haskell “Ike” Collins Sr. of Anguilla; two sisters, Martha Collins Hiter of Merigold and Janice Collins Wyatt of Cleveland, Miss.; four grandchildren, Phillip Collins Bass and Kyle Davidson Bass, both of Rolling Fork, Heather Nicole Stuart of Brandon and James Garrett Stuart of Cary; nieces; and nephews.

Pallbearers will be J.R. Carter, L.W. Carter, Jimmy Walker, Clifton Porter, David Daniel, Donnie Collins, John Bass and Morris Stuart.

Honorary pallbearers will be Jimmy Harrison, Dr. Danny Jackson, Tony Maxey, Tony McIntyre, Lee Martin, Ike Presley, Joe Hicks, Thomas Scott and Robert Barfield.

Memorials may be made to First Baptist Church, 205 N. Second St., Rolling Fork, MS 39159.