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- The News-Gazette (Champaign-Urbana, IL)
August 26, 2002
RANTOUL - Mary Josephine Drinkwater-Collins, 86, formerly of Rantoul, died Friday (Aug. 23, 2002) in Ennis, Mont.
Mrs. Collins was born March 31, 1916, in Rantoul, a daughter of Edward and Elizabeth Cleary Head. She married Kenneth Drinkwater on Feb. 15, 1941. He died in 1971. She married Richard Collins. He died in 1987.
Survivors include two stepsons, Douglas Collins of Thomasboro and Donald Collins of Logansport, Ind.; a daughter, Nancy Drinkwater of Ennis, Mont.; seven grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by a daughter, a brother and five sisters.
Mrs. Collins was a member of St. Malachy Catholic Church and its Altar and Rosary Society, and the Women of the Moose.
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