Extracted from The News-Star (Monroe, LA)
Tuesday, September 5, 1944

Jesse I. Collin

WINNSBORO, La., Sept. 5. -- (Special) -- The funeral of Jesse I. Collins, 33, Franklin parish man killed in Port Arthur, Tex., in an accident at an ammonia plant where he was employed, was held here by the Mulhearn Funeral Home today. Interment was in a local cemetery.

Mr. Collins is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Collins; his wife, Mrs. Mamie Lee Collins; two sons, Jessie Mae Collins and Carey Lynn Collins; five brothers, Marcus Collins, DeVille Collins, Truitt Collins, Leo Collins and Woodrow Collins; and four sisters, Miss Car[r]ie Collins, Mrs. Lela Foye, Mrs. Annie Lee Emfinger, and Mrs. Nerene Newcomb, all of Franklin parish.