08/18/2026
“The Lord is near to the broken-hearted.” Psalm 34:18a
It is with broken hearts that we mourn the passing of Amy Collins Cameron, but we celebrate that she has entered heaven‘s eternal healing.
Amy was born March 1, 1954, to Dr. Arthur Carl Collins, Sr., and Elisabeth Catherine Covey Collins. Amy will be remembered as a true friend, an encouraging leader, and a people person all her life. For example, she led the Scottsboro High School Wildcat Band as head majorette in high school. After graduation, Amy attended Randolph Macon Women’s College in Lynchburg, Virginia, before graduating in 1976 from the University of Alabama. In college, she made lifelong friends from all over Alabama and beyond, including her sorority sisters in Kappa Kappa Gamma social sorority. Her matchmaking led to more than one happy marriage.
After college, Amy spent three years in Washington as a congressional staffer for Bob Jones and Ronnie Flippo before she took a job as a tour director for INTRAV that arranged chartered international trips, including tours to Africa and the Orient. A natural at hospitality and adventure planning, Amy traveled the world while organizing and shepherding travelers in her care. She even called Australia her home for a period.
When it was time to return to her Alabama roots, Amy moved to Huntsville and began a career as a sales executive with BellSouth. In 1989, Amy was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis (MS). As she did with every...
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