Monday, June 22nd, 2009
Wilma Collingsworth
Wilma E. Collingsworth, 67, 802 E. Spring St., St. Marys, died at 1:43 a.m. June 20, 2009, at her residence.
She was born Dec. 27, 1941, in Carbondale, to Henry and Phyllis Branscomb Frank. On July 3, 1976, she married Dale Collingsworth, who survives.
Other survivors are two daughters, Stacy (Joe) Weaver, St. Marys and Angie Dixon, Cincinnati; two sons, Lonny (Fay) Shimp, Fountain, Colo. and Tommy (Jodi) Shimp, New Bremen; three sisters, Lynn (Mark) Sholler, Sandra (Ron) Suchland, and Karen Sparks, all of St. Marys; a brother, James (Brenda) Frank, Coldwater; a nephew whom she raised, Michael Garee, Fairborn; 15 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
She retired from Trim Trends, Spencerville. She was a member of the Faith Alliance Church, New Bremen, and graduated in 1959 from St. Marys Memorial High School.
Services are 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Miller Funeral Home, St. Marys, the Rev. Tom Sager officiating. Burial is at Elm Grove Cemetery.
Calling is noon until the time of the service Wednesday at the funeral home.
Contributions can be made to St. Rita's Hospice.
Condolences can be left at www.millerfuneralhomes.net.
