Sharon Kay Collins

The life of Sharon Kay Collins will be remembered and celebrated Saturday, March 19, 2016 at 2:00 PM in the Hayhurst Funeral Home Chapel, Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. Pastor Tom Goins will officiate. Sharon Kay (Waggoner) Collins made her grand entrance on Tuesday, August 24, 1943 in Chanute, Kansas. Sharon was the daughter of Homer and Ruth (Bower) Waggoner. Sharon said her final goodbye on Thursday, March 10, 2016 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She was 72 years of age. Sharon attended Chanute High School and was a member of the Class of 1961. It was at the 1960 Artist Alley Festival that she met her future husband, Tony Collins. He offered her the teddy bear he won in a carnival game and she gladly accepted. Just a few months later, she accepted his marriage proposal. They married on March 31, 1961 in Chanute, Kansas and spent the next 31 years together raising kids, a family business and many other life events until his death in 1992. Sharon and Tony instilled a strong work ethic in their children as the owners of the family restaurant Don Divine's in Coffeyville, Kansas from 1969 to 1981. Sharon showed her family the importance of education by working for and receiving her nursing certification as an adult at Tri-County Technical School. Her nursing career included work at OU Medical Center OB and Oncology and in home healthcare. Sharon was a member of Northside Christian Church in Broken Arrow, where she enjoyed friendship and fellowship with the Ladies Group, “Tuesdays Grace”. Sharon enthusiastically filled all the roles she was granted in life: daughter, sister, friend, neighbor, wife, mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother. A lot of words could be used to describe Sharon including, but certainly not limited to: ornery and stubborn, clever and funny, smart, loving, and kind. Sharon loved the Lord, her family, Coca-Cola, the Oklahoma City Thunder, and the Chicago Cubs (probably in that order). She went out of her way to bring joy into other people's lives and she was never one to pass up something sweet. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests, at Sharon’s request, stuffed animals which will be donated to First Responders dealing with traumatized children. Monetary memorials may be made to Volunteers of America, www.voaok.org, 9605 E. 61st Street, Tulsa, OK 74133. Sharon is survived by her children and their spouses: Doug and Tracy Collins of Broken Arrow; Randy Collins and Rebecca Corum of Tulsa; Debbie and Tony Bromley of Broken Arrow; and Tammy and Mitch Campbell of Tulsa; her grandchildren and their spouses: Amanda and Jordan McCown, Jake Collins, Colton Collins, Blake Collins, Cody Bromley, Beau and Kristen Bromley, Nick Bromley, Cassie Campbell, Natalie Greer, and Galyn Campbell; her great granddaughter: Everly Mae McCown; and her brother: Hank Waggonner of Chanute, Kansas. She was preceded in death by her parents, Homer and Ruth Waggoner, husband, Tony Collins, daughter, Karen Collins, and siblings, Joe Waggoner, Bill Waggoner, Dorothy Haden, and David Waggoner.

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Sharon Kay Collins

August 24, 1943 - March 10, 2016