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Wilburn T. Collins - Madison Parish, Louisiana 

From Tallulah Madison Journal June 27, 1990

Funeral services for Mr. Wilburn T. Collins, 72, were held at 4 p.m. Friday at the First Baptist Church 
with Rev. John Rushing and Rev. Ramon Warren officiating. Burial was in the Memorial Park Cemetery 
under direction of Crothers Funeral Home.

Mr. Collins died Wednesday, June 20 at the Madison Parish Hospital.

He was a native of Olla and had been a resident of Madison Parish for the past 16 years. He was a farmer, 
a member of the Farm Bureau, a member of the Tallulah Academy Board and a member of the First Baptist Church.

Survivors include his wife, Bessie Lee Collins of Tallulah; four sons, Gerald Collins, Truman Collins, 
Donald E. Collins and Stephen Collins, all of Tallulah; one brother, Ray Collins of Mt. Ida, Ark.; two 
sisters, Ethel Watson of Monroe and Pauline Fortenberry of Tallulah; 12 grandchildren; two 
great-grandchildren and a number of nieces and nephews.

Pallbearers were Charlie Hopkins, Billy Ray Arender; Clayton Cox, Clay Crawford, Virgil Neumann, 
Warren Hopkins, Bob Craft and James Reeves.

Honorary pallbearers were Jim McDaniel, Murray Washam, Dr. Tommy Neumann, Dr. L. P. Neumann, Racer Holstead, 
George Hopkins and Len Laughman