Ellen Mae Pass Collins Obit

Funeral services for Mrs. Ellen Mae Pass Collins, 78 who died Thursday, September 27, 1967 in the home of a daughter in Hammon, were held at 2:00 p.m. Sunday, October 1, 1967 in the First Baptist Church with Rev. Carol D. Walters, Hammon, and Rev. Glen Cowperthwaite, Elk City officiating.

Burial was in Red Hill Cemetery, Hammon, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma.

Mrs. Collins was born July 11, 1889, in Atlanta, Georgia.

She moved from Georgia to east Texas with her parents in 1893 and was married on August 8, 1906, to John J. Collins, who preceded her in death on October 18, 1965.

She was a member of Elk City's First Christian Church.

Surviving are two sons, Buford of LaMesa, California; and Oran of Lemon Grove, California; five daughters, Mrs. Joy Bailey of El Cajon, California; Mrs. Lester Rounds of Woodward; Mrs. Harold Irwin of Hammon; Mrs. Leona Kome of Longview, Texas; and Mrs. Henry Pittman of Oklahoma City; her step mother, Mrs. Lillian Pass of Carthage, Texas; one sister, Mrs. Cynthia Langford of San Angelo, Texas; two half-brothers, Tommy Pass of Carthage, Texas; and Troy Pass of Gary, Texas; fourteen grandchildren and eighteen great grandchildren.

Funeral arrangements were under the direction of the Martin Funeral Home.