Randall C. “Randy” Collins, 70, of Warrensburg, died Friday, Feb. 5, at St. Luke’s Hospice House in Kansas City.

The family will receive friends from 9:30 until service time Wednesday, Feb. 10, at the Grover Park Baptist Church. Funeral services are scheduled for 11 a.m. Wednesday at the church with Dr. Randall Neal officiating.  Cremation will follow the service with interment at a later date in Osceola, Missouri, Cemetery. Pallbearers will be Gene Wood, Mike Matthews, Stan Thompson, Rusty Casey, Elray Doerflinger and Dennis Scherer.

He was born June 1, 1941 in Lyons, Nebraska, the son of Norman and Erna (Newell) Collins.

On Aug. 21, 2004, in Warrenburg, he and Sherry Loudermilk were married. She survives.

After graduating from Osceola High School in 1963, Randy began his apprenticeship with Local 948 in Sioux City, Iowa. After working many years in Iowa and Missouri as a carpenter foreman, he retired in 2006 as an assistant superintendent from Walton Construction as a member of United Brotherhood of Carpenters Local 315 in Kansas City, Missouri.

Randy was an avid outdoorsman and gun collector. Some of his fondest memories were hunting and fishing with his brothers and sons. He loved woodworking, gun shows, gardening and feeding the birds. Randy spent his years in retirement at his home near Truman Lake enjoying the outdoors with family and friends. He was a member of Grover Park Baptist Church.

Randy is survived by his wife, Sherry; two sons, Randy Collins and wife, Chris, of Warrensburg, Stuart Collins and wife, Diane, of Knob Noster; a daughter, Kim Hoover and husband, Keith, of Phoenix; two stepsons, Scott Rupard of Carthage, Missouri, and Jeffrey Rupard of Nashville, Tennessee; one stepdaughter, Laura Casey and husband, Rusty, of Holden, Missouri; two brothers, Robert Lee Collins and wife, Mary, of Knob Noster, Nels John Collins and wife, Teresa, of Warrensburg; a sister, Linda Ording and husband, Gene, of Warrensburg; five grandchildren, Stephanie Hoover, Samantha, Sierra, Madeline, and Walker Collins; four step-grandchildren, Bryce and Conner Rupard, and Jilliann and Travis Casey.

Memorial contributions are suggested to the Grover Park Baptist Church building fund and can be left in care of Sweeney-Phillips & Holdren Funeral Home.