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Published on: 9/14/2007
Last Visited: 9/14/2007
Donald R. Collins, Sr. President of family owned and operated Collins Funeral Home E-mail: drcollins@collinsfuneralhome.net
Don and his wife Sue purchased the Vest Funeral Home in 1969.Don graduated from St. James Catholic High School in Chester, PA in 1954.Then he completed one year at Pennsylvania Military College before attending Indiana College of Mortuary Science in Indianapolis, Indiana graduating in 1957 as a Funeral Director and Embalmer.For ten years he managed the old Feeney-Kirby Mortuary on Meridian Street, a subsidiary of Flanner & Buchanan Mortuaries in Indianapolis . He is currently a Licensed Funeral Director and Embalmer in Indiana and Coroner of Scott County, Indiana.
Besides the Office of Coroner, he is a past City Councilman from 1972 to 1979.He currently is the President for the Scottsburg Water Department.He also is on the Board of Directors at the Scottsburg Building & Loan Association and past director of the Scott County Community Foundation.Don and Sue are members of the Church of the American Martyrs.Don is a member of the Knights of Columbus, Kiwanis Club, Fraternal Order of Police, Indiana Coroners Association, Indiana Funeral Directors Association, National Funeral Directors Association, Independent Funeral Directors Association of Indiana, Selected Independent Funeral Homes, Association of Indiana Counties and Charter Governor of the Scott County Moose Family Center #2324.In the past he has served on numerous other boards and organizations.