Alice Faye Giddens Collins

CLARKSVILLE — Alice Faye Giddens Collins, 63, of Amarillo, went to be with her Lord Jesus after a three- year battle with cancer Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2001.

Graveside services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 30, at Stones Chapel Cemetery in the Cherry Community with the Rev. James Brown officiating. Clarksville Funeral Home has charge of arrangements. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday at the funeral home.

Alice was born on Oct. 2, 1938 in Clarksville to Robert Wesley and Maxine Watson Giddens. Alice graduated from Paris Junior College and later received a master's degree from East Texas State University in education. She was a teacher in the public school system for 22 years, teaching in Mesquite and North Mesquite High School. The last 9 years she taught at Palo Duro High School. She was a member of San Jacinto Baptist Church and served as an example for her family, friends and students.

Survivors include her husband, Edward Collins of Amarillo; two daughters, Sherry Rigsby of Bullard; and Celia Minix of Fairfax Station, Va.; two stepdaughters, Brenda Davis and Lyn Eastepp, both of Amarillo; her father, Robert Wesley Giddens of Clarksville; one sister, Loretta Kilmer of Rockport, one brother, James (Jim) and wife Sue Townes Giddens of Paris; 10 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her mother, Hazel Maxine Watson Giddens in 1985.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorials be made to Don and Sybil Harrington Cancer Center, 1500 Wallace Blvd., Amarillo, Texas 79106.