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Collin David Emerson
January 19, 2021
Collin David Emerson, 77, of Temperance, Mich., formerly of Brooklyn, Mich., died peacefully in his sleep and in his home, on January 13, 2021, following a long illness. Collin was born on May 1, 1943, in Addison, Mich., to Arlo and Elizabeth Emerson. When Collin was only two, his father Arlo was killed in action fighting the Nazis in Ardennes. The youngest of four children, he and his siblings were raised by their mother and grandmother, Violet Mellinger, in the quiet countryside outside of Brooklyn, Mich.
Collin spent his childhood fishing and hunting in the woods around his house, developing an abiding connection with nature and wildlife, and counting among his childhood pets everything from a fox to a brown bat.