Donna Bell Collins

Services for Donna Bell Collins of Daingerfield will be held at 10 am Tuesday, April 8, 2014, at First Baptist Church in Daingerfield with the Reverend Don Ross and the Reverend Norman Crisp officiating.Burial will be in the Daingerfield Cemetery under the direction of Nail-Haggard Funeral Home of Daingerfield.Donna Bell was born on September 16 in the Crossroads Community and died Saturday, April 5, 2014 in Mt. Pleasant, Texas.She was a life long member of the First Baptist Church of Daingerfield where she served on multiple committees and was a member of the Auditorium Sunday School Class. She was a founding member of the Business and Professional Women's Club and was also named Daingerfield Woman of the Year in 1994.Donna Bell worked for General Telephone Company for 19 years before the company relocated to Texarkana. She spent the next 26 years working for the Texas Department of Transportation, first in Lone Star as a permit clerk, then retiring as the Office Manager in Daingerfield. She and her husband have also managed a successful cattle business for many years. She was preceded in death by her parents, William and Ola Campbell, her brother Lloyd Campbell, her sister Francis Jones, her son Michael David Fomby and her first husband Archie Fomby.She is survived by her husband, James Collins and two daughters and son-in-laws Martha and Pat Campbell, Barbara and Stan Wyatt, all of Daingerfield;grandchildren, Phillip Campbell and wife Angelica of Murphy, Texas, Eric Campbell of Sherman Oaks, California, and one granddaughter Meghan Wyatt of Longview, Texas; great grandson Colt Campbell and great granddaughter Claire Campbell.She is also survived by stepdaughters Sherry and Don Barrett of Diana, Patricia and Billy Fitzgerald of Longview, and one stepson, James D. Collins of Diana, Texas; step grandsons Christopher Barrett, Corey Barrett, James D. Collins Jr., and Braden Fitzgerald; step granddaughter Monica DeMoss; step great granddaughter Jaycee DeMoss, step great grandson Landyn Pearson. She is also survived by her very special nephews Tommy Lyster of Daingerfield, Danny and Glenda Campbell of DeKalb, Texas, Tony and Winnie Campbell of Queen City, Texas, and Johnny and Janice Campbell of Anchorage, Alaska.The family would like to extend their sincere gratitude and appreciation to the nurses and staff of Cypress Basin Hospice who lovingly cared for her and also to her caregiver Mary Ann Nickleberry. Memorials can be made to the First Baptist Church of Daingerfield or Cypress Basin Hospice.Family will recieve friends from 6:00 till 8:00 P.M. Monday at the funeral home