SYLACAUGA, AL - Funeral service for 2nd Lt. James (Jimmy) Dudley Collins III, 22, will be Monday, June 29, 2015 at 11:00 am at Radney-Smith Chapel with Dr. Rick Patrick officiating. Burial will be in Marble City Cemetery in Sylacauga, AL with full military honors.
He was preceded in death by mother, Mary Samantha Duke Collins Silverman, father, James Dudley Collins, Jr., grandfather, George William (Will) Duke, Sr., grandmother, Susie Martha Duke, uncles, Wilbert Duke wife Norma, Hubert (Shorty) Duke wife Gwen, Herman Duke wife Myrtle and George William Duke Jr (Buck) wife Helen., aunt, Thelma Duke Barganier husband Irby Lona Duke Rush, cousins, Bobby Duke, Sr., Bobby Duke, Jr. and Ashley Duke.
On June 21, 1944, Mr. Collins was the co-pilot of a B-24H Liberator that crashed near Hoofddorp, Netherlands, while returning from a bombing mission against German forces near Berlin. Nine other servicemen were aboard the aircraft at the time of the crash. 42 years later, in September 1992, a brother of one of the crew members visited the Netherlands to learn more about the crash. While there, the brother spoke to a third party researcher who believed the remains of the two missing crewmen may still be present at the crash site. Lt. Jimmie D. Collins was one of those crewmen.
Visitation will be Monday June 29, 2015 from 9:00 am until 11:00 am. at Radney-Smith Funeral Home.
Pallbearers will be the Military Honor Guard.
Published in The Daily Home from June 27 to June 28, 2015
Bio by William "Darrell" Hosey
He was preceded in death by mother, Mary Samantha Duke Collins Silverman, father, James Dudley Collins, Jr., grandfather, George William (Will) Duke, Sr., grandmother, Susie Martha Duke, uncles, Wilbert Duke wife Norma, Hubert (Shorty) Duke wife Gwen, Herman Duke wife Myrtle and George William Duke Jr (Buck) wife Helen., aunt, Thelma Duke Barganier husband Irby Lona Duke Rush, cousins, Bobby Duke, Sr., Bobby Duke, Jr. and Ashley Duke.
On June 21, 1944, Mr. Collins was the co-pilot of a B-24H Liberator that crashed near Hoofddorp, Netherlands, while returning from a bombing mission against German forces near Berlin. Nine other servicemen were aboard the aircraft at the time of the crash. 42 years later, in September 1992, a brother of one of the crew members visited the Netherlands to learn more about the crash. While there, the brother spoke to a third party researcher who believed the remains of the two missing crewmen may still be present at the crash site. Lt. Jimmie D. Collins was one of those crewmen.
Visitation will be Monday June 29, 2015 from 9:00 am until 11:00 am. at Radney-Smith Funeral Home.
Pallbearers will be the Military Honor Guard.
Published in The Daily Home from June 27 to June 28, 2015
Bio by William "Darrell" Hosey
SYLACAUGA, AL - Funeral service for 2nd Lt. James (Jimmy) Dudley Collins III, 22, will be Monday, June 29, 2015 at 11:00 am at Radney-Smith Chapel with Dr. Rick Patrick officiating. Burial will be in Marble City Cemetery in Sylacauga, AL with full military honors.
He was preceded in death by mother, Mary Samantha Duke Collins Silverman, father, James Dudley Collins, Jr., grandfather, George William (Will) Duke, Sr., grandmother, Susie Martha Duke, uncles, Wilbert Duke wife Norma, Hubert (Shorty) Duke wife Gwen, Herman Duke wife Myrtle and George William Duke Jr (Buck) wife Helen., aunt, Thelma Duke Barganier husband Irby Lona Duke Rush, cousins, Bobby Duke, Sr., Bobby Duke, Jr. and Ashley Duke.
On June 21, 1944, Mr. Collins was the co-pilot of a B-24H Liberator that crashed near Hoofddorp, Netherlands, while returning from a bombing mission against German forces near Berlin. Nine other servicemen were aboard the aircraft at the time of the crash. 42 years later, in September 1992, a brother of one of the crew members visited the Netherlands to learn more about the crash. While there, the brother spoke to a third party researcher who believed the remains of the two missing crewmen may still be present at the crash site. Lt. Jimmie D. Collins was one of those crewmen.
Visitation will be Monday June 29, 2015 from 9:00 am until 11:00 am. at Radney-Smith Funeral Home.
Pallbearers will be the Military Honor Guard.
Published in The Daily Home from June 27 to June 28, 2015
Bio by William "Darrell" Hosey
He was preceded in death by mother, Mary Samantha Duke Collins Silverman, father, James Dudley Collins, Jr., grandfather, George William (Will) Duke, Sr., grandmother, Susie Martha Duke, uncles, Wilbert Duke wife Norma, Hubert (Shorty) Duke wife Gwen, Herman Duke wife Myrtle and George William Duke Jr (Buck) wife Helen., aunt, Thelma Duke Barganier husband Irby Lona Duke Rush, cousins, Bobby Duke, Sr., Bobby Duke, Jr. and Ashley Duke.
On June 21, 1944, Mr. Collins was the co-pilot of a B-24H Liberator that crashed near Hoofddorp, Netherlands, while returning from a bombing mission against German forces near Berlin. Nine other servicemen were aboard the aircraft at the time of the crash. 42 years later, in September 1992, a brother of one of the crew members visited the Netherlands to learn more about the crash. While there, the brother spoke to a third party researcher who believed the remains of the two missing crewmen may still be present at the crash site. Lt. Jimmie D. Collins was one of those crewmen.
Visitation will be Monday June 29, 2015 from 9:00 am until 11:00 am. at Radney-Smith Funeral Home.
Pallbearers will be the Military Honor Guard.
Published in The Daily Home from June 27 to June 28, 2015
Bio by William "Darrell" Hosey
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