Meldra Higgs Collins, age 92, of Ohoopee Community, died Wednesday, October 27, 2021, at Community Hospice in Vidalia after a brief illness. She was a native of Toombs County and lived in the Ohoopee Community most of her life. She retired from Farmers Furniture as a sales associate. She was Baptist by faith and enjoyed flowers, gardening and birds. She is preceded in death by her parents Enus Festus Higgs and Offa Rollison Higgs; former husband, Joseph Jarell Collins; and siblings, Hulan, Mildred, Mary, Winston, Jean and Doris.

Her family includes four children, David J. Collins and wife Lisa of Hawkinsville, Virginia “Jenny” Collins Lynn and husband Mickey, William C. Collins, all of Ohoopee, and Joseph L. Collins of Pulaski; four siblings, Margie Patrick and husband Charlie, Dorothy Cobb, Butch Higgs, all of Lyons, and Joyce Higgs of Alabama; nine grandchildren; seventeen great-grandchildren; ten great-great-grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews.

A memorial service will be held Saturday afternoon, October 30th, at 3:00 in the chapel of Ronald V. Hall Funeral Home with Pastor Nathan Pittman officiating.

The family will receive friends from 2:00 p.m. until just prior to the service.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Ohoopee Baptist Church, c/o Martha Hart, 2699 Hwy 292 East, Lyons, GA 30436.