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She was a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) at Caseyville Nursing & Rehabilitation Home for twenty years. She loved attending her grandchildren's sporting events and participating in their accomplishments. Some of her hobbies included: fishing, baking, BBQ, and cooking for the family. On horse racing days you would find her at Fairmount Park where she and her husband also trained and raced horses for over thirty years.
She was preceded in death by her parents Albert Weldon Davis & Edna Bernice Davis (Frey); one sister; Edna JoAnn Davis; four brothers; Albert James "Dutch" Davis, Robert Eugene Davis, Joseph Leon Davis Sr., Harold Lee Davis Sr.; and her husband of thirty-four years; Richard "Dick" Frank Collins.
Surviving are her son and daughters Claude " Shorty" Edwin Smith (Melissa) of Caseyville, April Bernice Davis of Collinsville, JoAnn Marie Gomez (Octavio) of Fairmont City; eight grandchildren; Cody Blake Smith, Branden Lee Smith, Garrett Matthew James Smith, Natalie Paige Smith, Zayden Edwin - Nykolas Davis, Lydia Anne Gomez, Octavio Alejo Gomez, Jonathan Francisco Gomez; one sister and four brothers; Dorothy Alberta Masden (Lonnie) of Grand Junction, Colorado, Donald Leroy Davis Sr. of Colorado, John Gilbert Davis II of Grand Junction, Colorado, Michael Davis of Collinsville; also dearest & closets friends Victoria Michelle Helms and Melissa Gipson-Carkuff.
A Celebration of Life will be held at 7:00 PM, Wednesday, July 31, 2024 from the Chapel of Herr Funeral Home in Collinsville, Illinois.
Family will receive friends from 6PM until the hour of service on Wednesday, July 31, 2024 at the funeral home.
Remembrances may be made through contributions to the American Cancer Society.
The family is being served by Herr Funeral Home 501 West Main Street, Collinsville, Illinois 62234.
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April Davis
July 19, 2024
Deborah aka my mother leave my brother and me with my grandma on Thursday and come back on Tuesday!!!! Sorry Mama I'm not going to be there I'm somewhere u wanted me to go
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