Wolfe County News - June 3, 1964 WOLFE NATIVE KILLED IN OHIO BY FELLED TREE Five people were left fatherless Saturday when a tree fell and killed Marvin Collins, 47, of 100 Boys Ave., Franklin, Ohio. He was a native of Wolfe County. The accident occurred in a woods on a farm east of Franklin near Interstate 75 north and north of Ohio 73. Officials said Mr. Collins was part of a work party cutting soft lumber for pulp at the Logan-Long Co. Witnesses said Mr. Collins felled one tree but it lodged in the top of another tee. He began to saw the second tree when the first slipped and fell on him. The tree was approximately a foot in diameter. Mrs. Collins was taken to the Middletown hospital by ambulance but was dead on arrival at 1:30 p.m with a fractured skull and broken neck. He was an employee of the Maxwell Paper Co., for 21 years was a machine tender there. He was a Navy veteran of World War II and a member of the Church of God, Franklin. Surviving are the wife, Helen; five sons, Melvin, Marvin Jr., and Ronnie at home, Cecil of Titusville, Fla., and Kernie of Franklin; three brothers in Middletown, Ohio, Mort, Luther and Kernie Collins; three half sisters, Mrs. Janie Byrd of Louisville, Mrs. Goldie Rose, Campton, and Mrs. Ann Cox, Middletown, Ohio; four half brothers, Jess Brashears of Franklin, Sampson Brashears of Middletown, Dempsey Brashears of Campton and Holbert Brashears in the Air Force in Georgia and three granddaughters. Funeral June 2 at the Church of God, Franklin, with the Rev. John K. Wolfe officiating. Burial in the soldiers lot at Woodside Cemetery in Middletown. Carole