Lois June Fick Collins 1929-2009

COLLINS FICK SCHIERNBECK

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 5/21/2019 at 19:49:20

Sioux City Journal
2 Jan 2009

MAPLETON, Iowa -- Lois Collins, 79, of Mapleton passed away Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2008, at a Sioux City hospital.

Services will be 10:30 a.m. Saturday at St. Matthew Lutheran Church in Mapleton, with the Rev. Ed Brandt officiating. Burial will be in St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery. Visitation will be after 2 p.m. today, with the family present 6 to 8 p.m. and a prayer service at 7 p.m., at Armstrong Funeral Home in Mapleton.

Lois June (Fick) Collins was born Oct. 6, 1929, in Battle Creek, Iowa, the daughter of Ernest and Edna (Schiernbeck) Fick. She was baptized at St. John's Lutheran Church in Battle Creek and confirmed on May 17, 1942. She graduated from Danbury Public School in 1947.

On Sept. 5, 1949, she was united in marriage to Marvin Collins at St. Patrick's Catholic Church in Danbury, Iowa. The couple lived in Danbury until moving to Mapleton in 1959. She was a homemaker and babysitter for many years. Marvin died Dec. 20, 1979.

She enjoyed word find puzzles, her flowers, baking and gardening. Her greatest enjoyment was her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. She was a member of St. Matthew Lutheran Church and the LCW.

Survivors include two sons and their wives, Tom and Debbie of Cushing, Iowa, and Joe and Chris of Danbury, Iowa; two daughters, Connie and Dick Hamann of Battle Creek, Iowa, and Ann Collins of Mapleton; five grandchildren, Stacy and Matthew Sieperda, Amy and Jed Steele, Valerie and McKinley Pugh, Jeff and Jenny Collins and Nicholas Collins; six great-grandchildren, Regan, Taylor and Madison Sieperda, Emma Steele and Emma and Anna Heck; a sister, Phyllis Fick of Battle Creek; three brothers and their wives, John and Joan Fick of Danbury, Ken and Kathy Palm of Kingwood, Texas, and Dennis and Diane Palm of Central City, Neb.; and many other relatives, friends and neighbors.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Marvin; her stepfather, Alfred Palm; and a great-granddaughter, Mia Hamann.