Jossie Beatrice Collier, 92, of Cleveland, Tennessee, died on Tuesday, June 28, 2016.
She was born on Jan. 29, 1924 in Steele, AL., and moved to Cleveland in 1972.
She worked at Cleveland Travel Inn for 33 years as head housekeeper. She retired and spent the remaining years caring for her family. She was of the Church of God faith and was a member of God’s New Beginning Holiness House of Prayer.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Grimm and Nellie Velvet Pierce; her husband of 42 years Rev. Terry Fate Collier; her children, Charles Wallace Collier, Clara Beatrice Truelove and Terry Eugene Collier; and nine of her siblings. She will be greatly missed and forever loved by her family and friends.
She is survived by three daughters, Nellie Odell Couch (Tommy) of Cleveland, Gracie May Gilbert (Ralph) of Tunnel Hill GA and Hazel Lee Couch of Cleveland; her sister, Mary Sinclair of Steele, AL; 14 grandchildren, Jessie Collier, Billy Couch, Terry Couch (Tammy), Timmy Couch, Angela Holdman and her children Cody and Taylor, James Collier (Elena) all of Cleveland, Rhonda Synder (Steve), Karen Collier, from Chattanooga, Lorrie Collier of Athens, Matthew Truelove, Pamela Watson (Joey) from Benton, Tammy Gilbert (Andrew), Donald Gilbert (Sissy) and Robert Gilbert (Lorrie) from Whitfield County; 21 great-grandchildren; and five great-great-grandchildren.
A Remembrance of Life Service will be held at 11 a.m. on Friday, July 1 at Jim Rush Funeral and Cremation Services Wildwood Ave. Chapel with Rev. William Curtis and Rev. Winfred Truelove officiating. The interment will follow in the Earls Cemetery with Billy Couch, James Collier, Jessie Collier, Terry Couch, Timmy Couch, Joey Watson, Cody Holdman and Shane Holdman serving as casket bearers.
Jim Rush Funeral Home has charge of the arrangements.