Ouachita County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....COLLINS, CLARENCE EDWIN  July 18, 2013
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News Star World - July 22, 2013
CLARENCE EDWIN COLLINS

Funeral services for Clarence Edwin (Ed) Collins, 74, of Dubach, LA will be 
held at 2 PM Tuesday, July 23, 2013 in the Chapel of Mulhearn Funeral Home 
Sterlington Road, Monroe, LA. Rev. Troy J. Dennard and The Honorable Jay B. 
McCallum will officiate, with Grand Master Ed Durham conducting the Masonic 
service, followed by interment in Crowville Masonic Cemetery. Mr. Collins, a 
commercial pilot and instructor, passed away Thursday, July 18, 2013 in 
Morehouse Parish. Ed was a U.S. Air Force veteran. After his service he opened 
Collins Communications in Gillette, WY and started flying in order to cover 
great distances to service his radio communications clients. Ed soon became an 
accomplished pilot and later an instructor. He began his commercial flying 
career with Antelope Airlines while developing the "Collins Heights" 
subdivision in Gillette. Still in Gillette, he built and operated Executive 
Air, a full service charter business that included a flight school, and had a 
Piper franchise. Ed's long and distinguished flying career included some of his 
most enjoyable life experiences as a bush pilot in Fairbanks AK. After moving 
to LA, he flew with Monroe Air, Executive Air and most recently with Flying 
Tiger Aviation where he was a favorite instructor of many students. He was a 
great humanitarian serving others his entire life in many ways. He loved 
children and helped those less fortunate by working with the International 
Shriners Hospitals in Wyoming and Louisiana. Ed served as Potentate of the 
Barak Shrine Monroe in 2004 and worked with the Barak Shrine Circus committee 
for over ten years. He was active in the Monroe Scottish Rite bodies and 
several Masonic lodges in LA: Choudrant Lodge # 339, Ruston Lodge # 106, Dubach 
Lodge # 277, Etoile Polaire Lodge # 1 in New Orleans, and was presently Master 
of Brookville Lodge # 161, Oak Ridge, LA. He was as a member of The Eastern 
Star in Wyoming and Louisiana. Ed was the Director of and played the lead in 
over 117 productions of The Rose Upon the Altar, a drama that exemplifies the 
principles of Masonry. Ed was preceded in death by his parents Glenn and Elma 
Collins and a son, Mitchell Eugene Collins. He is survived by his wife Sannie 
Dewitt Harper-Collins of Dubach, LA; sons, David Glenn Collins of Dubach, LA 
and Mark Steven Collins of Gillette, WY; and sisters, Jamesetta Newman of Ft. 
Scott, KS, Glenda Inman of Nixa, MO and Jan Collins of Columbia, MO. 
Pallbearers: Marcus Bailey, Bill Barr, John Chennault, Will Gray, Cash 
Melville, Bruce Osbon Honorary Pallbearers: Gene Allen, Barry Antley, Edwards 
Barham, Will Cook, Cliff Hall, Randy Holstead, Roy McDuffie, Felton Vickers 
Visitation will be from 5-7 PM Monday, July 22, 2013 at Mulhearn Funeral Home 
Sterlington Road Monroe. Memorials may be made to Shriners Children Hospital-
Shreveport 3100 Samford Ave. Shreveport, LA 71103 or Charity of choice.

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