Herman Lee Collins

Published 10:29 am Friday, February 7, 2014

Celebration of life services for Herman Lee Collins of Brookhaven are 11 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 8, at Alexander Junior High Auditorium in Brookhaven. Elder Lawrence Smith will officiate. Burial will be in Carver Heights Cemetery in Brookhaven. Kenneth I. Roberson Funeral Home of Pontotoc is in charge of arrangements.

Visitation is Friday, Feb. 7, from 1 until 6 p.m. at Tyler Funeral Home in Brookhaven and for one hour prior to services Saturday at the school.

Mr. Collins, 69, died Feb. 1, 2014, at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson.

A native of Brookhaven, he was the son of George Collins Sr. and Bessie Wilson Collins. He was a lover of music and he sang and played guitar for many national gospel groups such as The Victory Travelers of Chicago, Clarence Fountain and the Blind Boys of Mississippi, The Gospel Harmonizers and the Mighty Stars of Brookhaven. He was founder of the Collins Singers of Brookhaven.

He was a truck driver and owned George Collins Catfish House and was known as “The Peanut Man” for selling peanuts.

Survivors are his wife – Lisa Collins of Brookhaven; three daughters, Amy Collins of South Fulton, Ky., and Phoenix Collins and Chicago Collins, both of Brookhaven; three sons, Ricky Roberson of Orlando, Fla., Aquarius Walker of Kalamazoo, Mich., and Jason Collins of Dickson, Tenn.; five sisters, Florene Collins-Davis of Brookhaven, Juanita Collins, Lorene Collins-Jones, Jeanette Collins-Woods and Kathryn Collins, all of Chicago; and 15 grandchildren.