, Coleen Collins

Coleen Collins was born on April 15, 1938, the fourth child of the late Charles and Beatrice Spicer in Breathitt County, Kentucky. She was educated in the Lexington, Kentucky School System. She was a graduate of Evansville Lockyear Business College where she received her degree in Nursing. On June 28, 1959, she was united in Holy Matrimony to Frank Douglas Collins. This union was blessed with two daughters, Rita and Penny. Collen was employed at the Earl C. Clements Job Corps in Morganfield, Kentucky. Somehow, she found the time, the energy, and the love to serve as a Foster Mother and Mentor to hundreds of children.
Coleen's hobbies included shopping, sewing, and travelling. She was a well known cook in the Evansville Community—a legacy she passed on to her daughter, Penny. Coleen's specialties included brain sandwiches and fried catfish. Her dessert specialties included banana puddings, chess pies, and fried apple pies. Many may remember that Coleen was an athlete who played at Bellemede Park in the Evansville Recreation & Parks Department Women's Summer Softball League as a pitcher with a mean hook!
Coleen was a generous, selfless, kind hearted person whose love was unconditional and never ending; and no one knew that better than her loving family. Her grandson, Kenny, described her as SUNSHINE!
Coleen was preceded in death by her husband, Frank Douglas Collins; her parents, Beatrice and Charles Spicer; her daughter Denise Vanbibber; four brothers, three sisters, and grandson Douglas Jerome Bell and her special gentleman friend, Rev. Douglas F. Smith.
Those left to cherish and celebrate her legacy include her daughters, Penny Hooper and Rita Collins; sisters Candacy Marks, Shirley Howard, Maudie Higgins (Herbert), Bonnie Jones (Douglas), and Patricia Cole (Ken); grandsons Kent T. Bailey, Jr., James, Deonte, and Sean Bushrod; granddaughters LaTosha Vanbibber, and Shawnte Bushrod; twelve great grandchildren; and a host of great, great grandchildren; her beloved friends at the Senior Citizens Community Center, her “Bonus” daughter, Debra Smith-Meriweather; her “Bonus” granddaughters, Joslin Wilson and Stacey Fisher, special niece; Goldie Roger and a host of nieces and nephews and other extended family and friends.  Visitation will be drive through only.