Obituary - Margery Laurette “Marney” Collins Low Country Cremation and Burial
Margery Laurette “Marney” Collins, age 76, died peacefully Wednesday, December 16, in the memory unit at Willow Pond Senior Care in Statesboro.
A proud native of Delaware and a “cradle-to-grave” Episcopalian, Marney valued education and enjoyed connecting with friends from the human, animal and plant realms.
She attended Queens College in Charlotte, N.C., on a full scholarship, earning a BA degree in English and French in 1965. Six years later, she received the MA in English at the University of Hartford in Hartford, Conn. She finished coursework and exams toward a Ph.D. in English at the University of Connecticut in 1983.