Evelyn Mae Dickison
Ava, MO

Evelyn Mae (Collins) Dickison passed away at her home on June 23, 2009.

She was a loving wife, mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother, and friend to many.

Evelyn was born at Dora, Mo. to Emery and Molly (Chambers) Collins on January 15, 1928.

Evelyn attended elementary school at Bethany and Dora High School where she graduated in 1947 as valedictorian of her class.

She married John N. Dickison on March 6, 1949 at Dora and they were blessed with two daughters, Marie and Brenda.

Evelyn helped her husband in the Richville store and on their farm in the eastern part of Douglas County before moving to Ava in 1962. She worked at Rawlings Mfg. from 1963-1990.

She was a member of the First Southern Baptist Church where she loved to worship and fellowship with all the members and their families.

Evelyn was preceded in death by her parents Emery and Molly Collins, husband John, brothers Ermon, Earl, and Windol Collins, sister Dorothy Driskell, great grandson Blaine Bristol, as well as an infant sister.

She is survived by her daughters: Marie Bristol of Ava and Brenda Dye and husband, Noel of Ava; five grandchildren, Mike Bristol and wife Chantal of Springfield, Mo., Nicholas Byrd. Patrick Bristol, Randi Garrett, and Danielle Dye of Ava; eight great-grandchildren, Victoria, MiKaela. Serenity, Dominick, and Cedrick Bristol, Dustin and Dylan Levesque, and Allyson Garrett; two brothers, Truman Collins and wife Jean of Springfield. Mo. and Charles Collins and wife Fern of Springfield, Mo. one brother-in-law, Lyle Dickison and wife Marybelle of Ava and one sister-in-law Rosa Collins of Dora, Mo.

Services for Evelyn will be Friday, June 26, 2009, 10:00 a.m. at the Clinkingbeard Funeral Home, Ava, MO with Pastor Tom Maples and Pastor Oren Alcorn officiating. Interment will follow in the Ava Cemetery. Visitation is Thursday 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. in the funeral home. Family requests memorials to Gideon's International, Hospice Compassus (Community Hospice) or St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.