The funeral service will be held at 12:00 P.M., Wednesday, December 26, 2018 at the Jehovah Missionary Baptist Church, 201 Chatham Street, Oglethorpe, Georgia. Burial will at Lebanon Cemetery 903 Travelers Home Church Road, Ideal, Georgia.
Peggy Denise Collins was born September 30, 1972 to late Hansel Walker and Nellie Kate Collins in Americus, Georgia. She attended the public school system of Macon County and was a 1991 graduate of D.F. Douglass High. She acquired numerous degrees including an Associate Degree in Accounting from South Georgia Technical College and a Bachelor Degree in Criminal Justice for Fort Valley State University. She was a faithful member of Travelers Home Church and taught Sunday School, President of Youth Ministry and she was a member of the Travelers Home Church choir. She was also a member of the Payne Bottom Community Club. Peggy worked as a caretaker for the Methodist Children Home in Macon, Georgia and various other jobs.
On Friday morning, December 21, 2018, Peggy departed her Earthly life in the loving surroundings of her family. A Precious one from us is gone: a voice we love is still. A place is vacant in our hearts, that can never more be filled.
Survivors include her mom, Nellie Kate Collins, Oglethorpe, Georgia; daughter, Shontavious Ivory; sons, Joshua K. Collins, and Tarrius K. Mann; two grandchildren, Dontavious Ahmad Griggs and Khloe Rouland, all of Oglethorpe, Georgia; a devoted fiancé, Craig Smith, Oglethorpe, Georgia; four sisters, Lillie (Eugene) Hill, Elois Brown, Nellie Collins, and Willie Pearl Collins, all of Oglethorpe, Georgia; two brothers, John (Angela) Collins, Kathleen, Georgia, Kenneth Hughey, Oglethorpe, Georgia; god-sisters, Deneen Manning, Oglethorpe, Georgia, Cathy Cochran, Macon, Georgia, aunts, Annie Bivins, Rosa Bivins, both of Oglethorpe, Georgia; uncles Arthur (Rebecca) Bivins, Warner Robins, Georgia, Albert Bivins, Oglethorpe, Georgia; great uncles and aunts, Willie Lee Raines, Bennie Raines both of Montezuma, Georgia, Juliette Ranies, Ideal, Georgia, Joyce Raines, Montezuma, Georgia, and Bessie Lee Raines, Oglethorpe, Georgia; a host of beloved nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.