Rosalee McKuin, daughter of the late Jesse Bryant Collins and Ethel Marie Williams Collins, was born Oct. 4, 1928, at Clinton, Ark., and departed this life at her residence in Bernie Sunday, June 26, 2005, at the age of 76.

Mrs. McKuin was a homemaker and a resident of Bernie.

She was united in marriage to Aaron O. McKuin March 9, 1946, at Piggott, Ark. He survives of the home in Bernie.

Other survivors include three sons, Dicky Allen McKuin, Aaron Dewayne McKuin and Michael Thomas McKuin, all of Dexter; one daughter, Susan Kaye Meese of Bernie; one brother, Dewey Collins of Kennett; one sister, Nina Foster of Bernie; four grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death other than by her parents by two brothers, Richard E. Collins and James Collins.

Friends may call at the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home in Bernie from 5 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, June 28, 2005. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Wednesday, June 29, 2005, in the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Chapel in Bernie. Interment will follow in the Bernie Cemetery.