Phyllis Collins

January 05, 2016

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Phyllis Collins
Des Moines

Phyllis Marie Collins of Des Moines, age 68, went home to be with the Lord and her loved ones Tuesday, January 5, 2016. She passed very peacefully due to a long-time battle with lung disease.

She was born January 17th, 1947 to Oneitta and Victor Stajcar. She attended East High School in Des Moines where she received her G.E.D. She went on to attend DMACC where she received a certificate for data entry. She was a Data Entry Operator for over 30 years, 12 of which she worked at Budget Marketing as Lead Operator. She then cleaned houses until her retirement in 2009.

Phyllis was a member of Lee Town Assembly of God Church. She was an avid bowler and was on the Budget Marketing bowling league where she took first place for high game, high series, and high score. She enjoyed going to Las Vegas and gambling, making spaghetti dinners for family and friends, and dancing to 50s and 60s music. She also enjoyed traveling in her earlier years, especially to the mountains in Colorado. She loved going out to eat and shopping with her mother and her daughter and playing cards with family. Summer was her favorite seasons and she liked bar-be-queing and spending time with her grandchildren and great grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Richard “Dick” Collins; her parents, Victor and Oneitta Stajcar; her sisters and brothers-in-law, Shirley and Ivan Myers, Nancy Sexton, Sandra Foster, Phyllis Barnes, Karen and Jack Davenport, Linda and Melvin Ivie, Bobby Collins, and James Collins; and her daughters’ father and best friend, Gary Wolfe.

She is survived by her daughter, Robin Stajcar Wolfe, her sons (Phyllis’s grandsons), Justin and Jesse Walker and Allen Michael Olson, and their children (Phyllis’s great-grandchildren), Alleah, Breanna, Landon, and Malachi Zaya Walker, and Tanysha and Conner; and step-daughter, Shelly Wolfe Mings, her daughters (Phyllis’s granddaughters), Shannon Wolfe and Shelby and Shawnee Mings, and their children, (Phyllis’s great-grandchildren), Owen, Summer Rae, and Elizabeth Lena. She is also survived by her life-long friends, Kay Carr Kalen, Rosie Smith, Sandy Goff, and Betty Perkins; numerous people to whom she was “mom” and “grandma”; and too many nieces and nephews, great nieces and nephews, cousins, aunts and uncles to mention.

Visitation will be held from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m., with funeral service at 2:30 p.m., Tuesday, January 12, 2016 at Hamilton’s Funeral Home, 605 Lyon Street, Des Moines. Interment will follow at Laurel Hill Cemetery.

Condolences may be expressed at:
www.HamiltonsFuneralHome.com

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