Preceded in death by husband Charles Rives Collier; parents Carlee and Ida Dyer; brother Joseph Dyer; sister Melva Dyer White; niece Kathy Louise Owen; nephew James White.
Survived by children Charles Dyer Collier (Joan), Hal Rives Collier (Edie), Suzanne Collier Little (Bill), and Gary Lee Collier (Ann); grandchildren Allison Collier Kaufman, Christy Collier Carey, Jennifer Kain Richardson, Suzan Louise Collier, Nick Collier, Beth Kain Bowers, Kalyn Little Huckemeyer, Maggie Collier, Charles Collier and George Collier; ten great-grandchildren: Gia Louise, Luke, Jake, Ruth, Sylvia, Sadie Louise, Kate, Corinne, Maggie and Lila; sister Opal Dyer Owen; and nephews Thomas Owen and Joseph White.
Special thanks to the caring and loving staff at Homewood at Brookmont Terrace.
Visitation will be held at Woodlawn Roesch-Patton Funeral Home on Thursday, January 8, 2015 from four to seven o’clock in the evening. Funeral service will be held on Friday, January 9, 2015 at eleven o’clock in the morning at Woodlawn.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions can be made to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital or the Down Syndrome Association of Middle Tennessee.