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Louis Wilson Collins - Madison Parish, Louisiana 

From Tallulah Madison Journal, January 18, 1957

L. W. Collins Dies Last Thursday After Brief Illness
Was Superintendent Of Veneer Mill At Chicago Mill And Lumber Company

Louis Wilson Collins, 59, died in a Vicksburg hospital Thursday morning after a brief illness.

A native of Akron, Alabama, he had lived in Tallulah for the past 19 years. He was superintendent of 
the Veneer Mill of the Chicago Mill and Lumber Company. Mr. Collins was a member of the American Legion, 
the Woodmen of the World, and the Methodist Church.

Funeral services were held Friday at 3:00 p. m. at the Methodist Church with Rev. William F. Mayo officiating. 
Interment followed in Cedar Hill Cemetery under the direction of Young's Funeral Home.

He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Lois Cash Collins; one brother, W. F. Collins of Monroe; three sisters,
Mrs. M. R. Morrison of Akron, Ala., Mrs. O. S. Robbins of Albana, Ga., and Mrs. C. B. Wourik of Cairo, Ga. 
and a number of nieces and nephews.

Active pallbearers worn Don Belot, J. W. Deason, Luke Wilkins, Charles Brown, Fred Massey and Polk McDonald.

Honorary pallbearers were all employees of the Chicago Mill and Lumber Co.