Linda Newton Collins

Published 6:00 am Monday, March 3, 2008

Services for Linda Newton Collins, of Brookhaven, are 11 a.m.Tuesday, March 4, at Macedonia M.B. Church with burial in CarverHeights Cemetery. Williams Mortuary is in charge ofarrangements.

Visitation is Monday from 1 until 6 p.m. at the funeralhome.

Mrs. Collins, 61, died Feb. 28, 2008, at her home in Brookhaven.She was born on May 10, 1946, to Robert Jones and Areace Jones.

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She was retired. She was a member of Macedonia M.B. Church and a1965 graduate of Eva Harris High School.

Preceding her in death were her mother, Areace Jones; hersisters, Roberta Lee, Bridget Williams, and Barbara Peyton; andthree grandchildren, 4’Ray Collins, Kia Taylor, and ToyyCollins.

Survivors are her father, Robert Jones, of Brookhaven; herdaughters, Anita Newton and Catina Collins Bryant, of Brookhaven;her sons, Michael Collins, Darron Newton, and Martin Collins, allof Bogue Chitto, and Glenn Collins, of Brookhaven; her sisters,Dorothy Hunter, of Loyd Star, Vanetta Vaughn, of Delta City, andPamela Fields, Lillian Bridges, and Wydell Dixon, all ofBrookhaven; her brothers, Robert Newton, Samuel Jones, and JamesJones, all of Brookhaven; a special devoted friend, HarvestScarborough; 15 grandchildren; and many nieces, nephews, and otherrelatives.