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Forrest COLLINS (VETERAN WWII)

Liberty Hill (aka Yancy) Cemetery
Crawford County,
Arkansas

Arkansas
PRIVATE FIRST CLASS US Army
81 Infantry Division
World War II
June 8, 1912 - October 17, 1944

*Obituary

SOUTHWEST AMERICAN - FORT SMITH, ARKANSAS - WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1948 - PAGE 3

PRIVATE COLLINS' BODY RETURNED

The body of Private Forrest Collins, 32 year old resident of Natural Dam, Arkansas, who was killed October 17, 1944, in battle at Manila, will arrive at the Ocker Funeral Home in Van Buren late Wednesday.

Burial will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at the New Liberty Cemetery near Odell, Arkansas with Rev. Norman Ferguson, assistant pastor of the First Baptist Church in Fort Smith, and Rev. Glenn Dipboye, officiating.

Survivors include his mother, Mrs. M.J. Collins, Odell, Arkansas, five brothers, Roy, Hiram, Edgar and Jonathan of Odell; and Ewell of Centralla, Washington; and two sisters, Mrs. Lela Honer (or Hones), Odell, and Mrs. Sylvia Tibbit, Evansville, Indiana.

Photo Contributed by Alvin Derby

Contributed on 8/7/11

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Submitted: 8/7/11 • Approved: 8/8/11 • Last Updated: 7/20/12 • R572826-G0-S3

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