Eva Poole Collins

Elva Poole Collins, age 89 of Eastanollee, Georgia, passed away on Sunday, April 23, 2023 in Madison, Georgia.

A daughter of the late Walter E. Poole, Sr. and Ella Ruth Johnson Poole, she was born December 1, 1933 in Elberton, Georgia. She was a graduate of Elbert County High School where she was valedictorian. She retired from the Stephens County School System. She was of the Pentecostal faith and a member of Gateway Community Chapel. She was a talented singer and accordion player, using music to minister to her church and local nursing homes. She had a heart for children, opening her home to numerous foster children through the years.

Proverbs 31:26-30 - She opens her mouth with wisdom, and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue.  She looks well to the ways of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness. Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her: “Many women have done excellently, but you surpass them all.” Charm is deceptive, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised.

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband of 63 years, Harold Thomas Collins, siblings, Walter E. Poole, Jr., Vivian Poole Bryant, and Niles Poole, and great-grandson, Owen Christopher Manley.

Survivors include her two daughters and a son, Sybil Manley of Watkinsville, Georgia, June and Wayne Butler of Bishop, Georgia, and Tommy and Duanna Collins of Eastanollee, Georgia; four grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.

Funeral services will be Sunday, April 30, 2023, 2 O’clock PM in the Hillcrest Chapel of the Acree-Davis Funeral Home with The Reverend Don Scott, The Reverend Wayne Butler and The Reverend Christopher Manley officiating. Family members will serve as pallbearers and honorary pallbearers, Christopher Manley, Marcus Eason, Bruce Halstensgard, Walter E (Gene) Poole III, Mike Poole, Ethan Poole, Patrick Terrell, Jeff Poole, Alex Johnson, Cole Acker, Rod Bowie and Dean McCurry.

The family will receive friends at the Acree-Davis Funeral Home on Sunday from 12:30 PM until the service time. Online condolences may be left for the family at www.acree-davisfh.com.

Interment will follow in Stephens Memorial Gardens with the Acree-Davis Funeral Home and Crematory in charge of the arrangements for Elva Poole Collins.