Lynda Lowery Collier
Searcy Funeral Home and Crematory, 1301 Neal Metcalf Road, Enterprise, AL 36330Viewed: 1670
Posted by: MikeThompson
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334-393-2273 or 334-347-2517
Date: Nov 13 2011 3:27 PM
Lynda Lowery Collier, nee Lynda Jane Lowery, 71, died at her home in Enterprise on Friday, November 11, 2011, after a long struggle with Alzheimer’s Disease.
Funeral services will be held at 11 AM at St. Luke United Methodist Church in Enterprise on Tuesday, November 15, 2011. Burial will follow at Friendship Baptist Church on Huffman Road in Grady, AL with Searcy Funeral Home directing. The family will receive friends from 10 AM until service time at the church. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Alzheimer’s Association (alz.org), Alzheimer’s Association National Office, 225 N. Michigan Ave., Fl. 17, Chicago, IL 60601.
Mrs. Collier was born in Albertville, AL on March 9, 1940, the daughter of Brelen A. Lowery and Ethel Bernelle Chambers Lowery, both of whom preceded her in death. Lynda attended Huntingdon College in Montgomery and graduated with honors from Birmingham-Southern College. She was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa honorary society and her beloved Alpha Omicron Pi social sorority. She taught English at Ensley High School in Birmingham and was later a feature writer for the Southeast Sun in Enterprise.
Lynda and her husband of 49 years, Dr. William (Bill) Baxter Collier, Jr. were married in 1962. They were stationed at RAF Lakenheath in England, where their first child, Charles Amos Collier, was born and died in 1967. They returned to Alabama in 1968, settling in Enterprise. Lynda was a member of St. Luke United Methodist Church and the Episcopal Church of the Epiphany, and a founder of the Coffee County Arts Alliance. A life-long Anglophile and lover of English literature, Lynda led tours of England and Scotland and was a devoted patron of the Alabama Shakespeare Theater.
Lynda is survived by her husband Bill, their son and daughter-in-law, William (Will) Baxter Collier, III and Beth Herr Collier; daughter and son-in-law, Anne Lynn (Kitty) Collier Mingus and Matthew Mingus; grandsons, Collier and Matthew Mingus; sister, Lauren Elizabeth Lowery; aunt, Connie Dee Chambers Brown.
The family wishes to send special thanks to Mary Sue Frazier, Mary Thames, Paula Catrett and Day Spring Hospice for their devotion and care, and to the community of Enterprise for the countless acts of kindness and love during Lynda’s long illness.
You may sign the register book or send condolences to the family at our website: www.searcyfuneralhome.com.
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