Crisp County GaArchives Obituaries.....COLLINS, PFC EARL P March 30, 1945
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WYLIE SHEPPARD JR http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00030.html#0007303 June 25, 2011, 10:34 am

CORDE;E DISPATCH
MRS L.F. WOODWARD,OF THIS CITY HAS JUST RECEIVED A CONFIRMING LETTER FROM THE 
WAR DEPT. STATING THAT HER SON, PFC EARL COLLINS ,WAS KILLED IN ACTION IN 
GERMANY,MARCH 30TH. HE WAS 24 YEARS OLD.
 PFC COLLINS SERVED WITH THE ARMED FORCES TWO YEARS AND WAS OVERSEAS DURING 
THE PAST NINE MONTHS. WITH THE 36TH ARMORED INFANTRY OF THE FIRST ARMY, HE 
PARTICIPATED IN THE DECEMBER GERMAN BREAK THROUGH. HIS MOTHER HAS RECEIVED 
LETTERS FROM HER SON WRITTEN SHORTLY BEFORE HIS DEATH, IN WHICH HE STATED THAT 
HE WAS WELL. SHE HAS ALSO RECEIVED A NUMBER OF BATTLE SOUVENIERS FROM HIM.
 BESIDES HIS MOTHER ,PFC COLLINS IS SURVIVED BY THE FOLLOWING BROTHERS AND 
SISTERS ,MST SGT CAULIE W COLLINS, NOW IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC, MRS W M BRIDGES, 
PASCAGOULA,MISS.; MRS R F MILLER, ANDERSON S INDIANA, A HALF-SISTER ,MRS J C 
JOHNSON, CORDELE; TWO STEP -BROTHERS PVT JOHN D WOODWARD, NOW IN FRANCE AND 
SGT ALVIN WOODWARD OF ATLANTA.
 SYMPATHY IS EXTENDED THE BEREAVED ONES IN THEIR LOSS.

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