Willie Collins-Morris

June 4, 1916 - July 14, 2008

Memorial: 4 PM, Thursday, July 17, 2008 Burnam & Son Mortuary 201 Center Street Visitation: 9 AM, Saturday, July 26, 2008 Fifth African Baptist Church 2616 Louisiana Ave New Orleans, LA Funeral: 10 AM, Saturday, July 26, 2008 Fifth African Baptist Church 2616 Louisiana Ave New Orleans, LA Interment: Mount Olivet Cemetery & Mausolem Willie Bea Collins-Morris, 92, of Bowling Green died July 14, 2008. She was a native of East Feliciana Parrish of New Orleans. She was a member of Fifth African Baptist Church of New Orleans, where she served as Sunday school teacher and choir member for many years. She was an active Girl Scout troop leader, a member of Senior Citizen Members Organization and a graduate of McDonald 35 High School and Xavier University, where she was captain for the women s basketball team. She was a devoted teacher for more than 40 years and loved gardening and being with her family. She was a daughter of the late Willie Collins and Ameila Chapman-Collins and the wife of the late Edward Charles Morris. She was preceded in death by two sisters, Alice Munley and Jewell Munley. Memorial service is at 4 p.m. Thursday at Burnam & Son Mortuary. Funeral is at 10 a.m. July 26 at Fifth African Baptist Church in New Orleans, with burial in Mount Olivet Cemetery & Mausoleum in New Orleans. Visitation begins at 9 a.m. Saturday at the church. Rhodes Funeral Home in New Orleans is in charge of arrangements. Survivors include two daughters, Gwen Menestrina and her husband, Robert, of Bowling Green and Elaine Markham and her husband, Robert, of Charlotte, N.C.; a son, Edward Morris and his wife, Brenda Lee, of Wadsworth, Ohio; grandchildren, Catrina Menestrina, Letia Neilsen, Ameila Menestrina, Melanie L. Markham, Michael Markham and his wife, Ginger, Rhonda Wilson and Daniel Morris and his wife, Shaun; a great-grandchild, Joshua Wilson; several nieces and nephews, Alice Shanks, Simone Jackson and Bernard Murry and his wife, Carolyn; and several friends.