Jerry Collinsworth

Jerry Collinsworth, age 88 and a former resident of the Sasakwa and Konawa, Oklahoma area, passed away on Monday, December 27, 2010 at Integris Baptist Medical Center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Funeral services are scheduled for 11:00 a.m. on Thursday, December 30, 2010 at the Swearingen Funeral Home Chapel in Konawa.  Burial will follow at Vamoosa Cemetery.  Rev. Ed George will officiate.  Pallbearers are Jerrod and Zach Collinsworth, Mark, Mitchell and Monty Payne, Jeremy and Josh Phillips, and Gary Elliott.  Honorary pallbearers include Lyndsey Phillips, Leslie Williams, Sonny, Jerome and Randy Collinsworth. Jerry was born on June 6, 1922, in Konawa to Annie (Zwicker) and Garry Collinsworth.  He served in the U.S. Navy during WWII, and he married Johnnie Tollett in Konawa on December 16, 1944.  He owned and ran Collinsworth Grocery Store, and he enjoyed horses. Jerry leaves behind to cherish his memory, one brother, J.E. Collinsworth of Wichita, Kansas; four daughters and sons-in-law, Sharlene Phillips and husband, Bobby of Seminole, Oklahoma, Linda Payne and husband, Kenneth of Konawa, Phyllis “Jean” Phillips and husband, Terry of Sasakwa, and Carlotta Travels and husband, Rocky of Sasakwa; one son, Bradford Collinsworth and daughter-in-law Brenda of Seminole; and daughter-in-law, Shirley Collinsworth of Sasakwa; Grandchildren, Randy Collinsworth, Lyndsey Phillips, Leslie Phillips-Williams and husband, Dean, Jerrod Collinsworth and wife, Mary, Zachary Collinsworth, Sonny Collinsworth, Mark Payne and wife, Jennifer, Mitchell Payne and wife, Kathy, Monty Payne, Jeremy Phillips and wife, Kristy, Joshua Phillips, Gary Elliott and wife, Sandy, and Jerome Collinsworth; also, 26 great-grandchildren and a host of other friends and family. He is preceded in death by his wife, Johnnie Collinsworth on January 14, 2000; his parents, Garry and Annie Collinsworth; two children, Shirley Evon Collinsworth and Jerry “Leon” Collinsworth; and three brothers, Kenneth, Joe, and Burl Collinsworth. Funeral Information: December 30, 2010, 11:00 AM Swearingen Funeral Home Chapel located at 217 N. Broadway, Konawa, OK 74849