Woodbury County

 
Perry Lee Collins Jr.

 

 

 

Men in Service

Melvin L. Hagberg, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Hagberg, 3509 Jackson Street: Irvin D. Levine, son of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Levine, 1054 25th Street; Ralph Wayne Hillman, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Hillman, 2601 Virginia Street; Richard A. Lechner, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Lechner, 2422 Douglas Street and Perry L. Collins, son of Mr. and Mrs. Perry L. Collins, 2541 S Coral Street, have reported at Washington University, St. Louis, for a course of army air force instruction.

Source: Sioux City Journal, April 1, 1943

Perry Lee Collins, Jr. was born Dec. 24, 1923 to Perry L. (Sr.) and Mabel E. Newman Collins. He died Oct. 28, 1990 and is buried in Riverview Cemetery, Rock Rapids, IA.

Perry served with the U.S. Army Air Corps in World War II.

Source: ancestry.com