Family, Friends & Fellow Officers Remember...

Ethan,
I'm sorry it took so long for me to leave a little memorial for you here. I still dont know what to say. As a dispatcher on second shift as soon as you picked up that mic and marked on duty I became your Lifeline. I feel Honored to have been giving that duty. I never verbally expressed it to you but you taught me alot about being a family man. I used to see you dropping your daughter off at school and I always could see the love you had for your family. No matter how crazy things were in this life you always put your family first. On January 4, 2006 you came to work like any other night you loaded your cruiser, marked on duty, and headed said you were going to go to main st jail to get your cruiser washed. I told you negative and to copy a unruly juvenile. You took the call without question and headed twds the location. Another officer got to the scene before you did and started having some problems with the juvenile and tried to mark over the air about it. However we were unable to hear him and you immediately stepped up your response in fear of the worst happening to a fellow officer. Little did you or anyone else know that you would soon be the one in trouble. I cant describe the feeling I got and still have the moment I got a 911 call saying one of our cruisers was in an accident. The siren on your cruiser was still going off in the background, I will never forget that sound. Unit 268 you will always have a place in my heart and everytime i sit down at the dispatch console and talk to your fellow coworkers on the radio I can still hear your voice but I continue on in honor of you.

Kylie,
I can not even fathom the loss you must be feeling right now and I have no words of comfort for you except that being the last person to speak with your husband I can assure you that his voice was filled with concern for his fellow officer and I am confident that if Ethan were still here he would again without hesitation step up his response for his fellow officer in trouble. Rest Assured that because of God's Love for us we will see ethan again because he is now patroling the streets of gold in heaven and he is making sure they are safe for the day we go to meet him there.

Unit 268 I have you S37 Sir.

Dispatcher Morris
Fairfield Co So

January 19, 2006

Godspeed brother. My heart goes out to your family and Dept. Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called the children of God.

Officer Jim Siget
City of Beaver Falls, Pa.

January 18, 2006

God Bless you and your family... Thank you for your service

Officer Brett Hankison
Louisville Metro Police

January 18, 2006

My thoughts and prayers go out to Deputy Collins's Family and Friends. Even though I am an ocean away I share in your sorrow. God bless my friends. Lee

Police Constable Lee Brierley
West Midlands Police, England, UK

January 17, 2006

Thank you for your dedicated service to your community and your department. May the Lord bless you and keep you. May they never forget your faithful service to your community and department and the brave HERO that you were. To Mrs. Collins, children, family, friends and co-workers, our heartfelt prayers and sympathies are with you. May God be with you all during this very sorrowful time. Words will never compensate the loss you have suffered. We pray that He now gives you all strength in your time of need. May you find peace in the thought, that we as friends in law enforcement, take this time to lift you up in prayer.

For your act of unselfish bravery and courage Deputy Collins, we salute you. Blessed are the peacemakers.

Denise & Erin Hunter, Widow and Daughter
Sgt. Gregory L. Hunter, Grand Prairie, TX Police Dept., EOW 6-18-04

January 16, 2006

I am so heart sick for the family he was a great cop and great guy. You are all in my prayers.

anonymous

January 16, 2006

Thank you for your service.

Ofc. S.L. Coffman #15174
California Highway Patrol

January 16, 2006

Rest in peace my brother. God bless the collins family. My brother you will never be forgotten

Trooper
OSHP

January 15, 2006

Deputy Collins,
Rest in Peace my brother. You will not be forgotten. God bless you, Your Family and the Fairfield County SO.

Officer Bob Swope #5609
Olmsted Falls Police Dept. Ohio

January 15, 2006

From the staff and members of Police Wives Online we would like to offer our deepest sympathies, thoughts, and prayers for the family, department, and friends of Deputy Collins. Thank you for your service Deputy Collins, you will never be forgotten! You are a true hero.

Mary Patrice P.
Police wife, Police daughter, and Police sister, H.U.G.S coordinator

January 15, 2006

thank you for your service. rest in peace and watch over us as we watch over your family.

my prayers and thoughts go to your family at this tough time.

cpd

January 15, 2006

My prayers are with Deputy Ethan Collins family. To his wife Kylie and his two young children, may god be with you at this tough time in your lives. Ethan was a wonderful person!!He will never be forgotten. Unit 268 will never be forgotten. Ethan will be watching us from the streets of heaven with his smile and his great personality. THANK YOU ETHAN FOR EVERYTHING. Love, a friend of Ethan and Kylie.

January 15, 2006

Our thoughts and prayers go out to This Officer, as well as the Family, Friends, Department and Community.

This is a loss that will never be forgotten. Hours will turn into days, days turn into weeks, weeks into months and months into years but, the difference that these officers have made will last forever.

We lost Our Deputy Morris Taylor on September 14, 2002. When he joined the other Angels in Blue.

God Bless Our Law Enforcement Officers and Those Who Love Them.

Jack & Tracy Van Dolah
Former LEO & Wife in Sutherlin, Oregon

January 14, 2006

Ethan,

You were a great officer, friend and brother. A part of us all has been taken from this world, and I know we will see you again. You will always be remembered.

God bless your family.

Deputy G. West
F.C.S.O

January 14, 2006

You answered the final call. Rest in eternal peace my Brother. "HERO", says it all.

Dep. D.J.Moss
Mahoning County S.O. Ohio

January 14, 2006

God be with your family and department during this time. RIP Deputy Collins

Sr Disp B J Kendrick
Chesapeake Police Department VA

January 14, 2006

Rest in Peace my brother. Such a tragic loss. My thoughts and prayers are with Deputy Sheriffs family, colleagues, and friends.

He will not be forgotton.

Lt. Paul Sanzone
NYPD

January 14, 2006

As I sit here viewing Deputy collins' reflections, my heart breaks for each of you. I am so touched by the devoted love and appreciation reflected by those who knew and those who never got the chance to know such an incredible individual. May Deputy Collins' Brothers and Sisters in Blue be at peace ~ Kylie,Madison and Hayden, I do not know you, but I want you to know that myself and others are praying for you and your little ones. Hold them tight and let them embrace you as hard as they can...God bless you all!!!

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves
have received from God.

~ 2 Corinthians I:3-4

Dispatcher Kimberly Abercrombie
Murfreesboro Tennessee Police Department

January 13, 2006

Ethan was indeed a great man. Helping others is his type of thing. That is how i met Ethan. I needed help on my senior project, so i went to the Sheriff Office on west wheeling. That was where i met the deputy, who is well known as a hero. He gave me Sgt.Rice's phone number, and he had helped me get my project started. If it weren't for Ethan as well as the other deputies, i wouldn't have the great senior project. When i went to the funeral services on Monday, i wasn't sure what to think. I wasn't sure if i wanted to hold it together and be strong for everyone else, or if i wanted to express how i really felt. Sad and loss. I lost it. I couldn't bare looking at Kylie, and Madison. Madison, showed the grief on her face. As trooper Kurt Hedges shared his story about Ethan, it made me realized just how great Ethan really was. Kylie, i know i can't ease your pain, by telling you i'm sorry. i just wanted you to know how your husband helped me. If i were to describe your husband, i would agree with the word "hero". I pray for you everyday.

Roxy Hedges

January 13, 2006

Ethan, I really enjoyed the conversations that we had during the years that I was privileged to know you at the SO. You had a gift of humoring others and that will always be remembered by those who knew you. As many people know, you lived by the golden rule and are respected by so many people because of that. Thank you Ethan for giving me an excellent role model to look up to from the beginning of my career to the times that we worked together on 2nd shift patrol. God bless you, Kylie, Madison, Hayden, and your whole family. You will be deeply missed by all of us who knew you and even those who didn't. I will do the best that I can to help your family if I am ever needed to do so. Unit 313 to unit 268...goodbye for now Brother. We will always remember you.

Deputy S.Tigner U313
Fairfield Co SO

January 13, 2006

We answered the calls and collected the information just like any other time, until they said it was a deputy. As our hearts raced and we prayed "don't let it be". We kept calling the post to confirm it unable to beleive that you were gone. We've replayed it in our minds a thousand times, and cried together, and with your wife and children. There is nothing we can say or do to express the grief we feel at the office. Just know that we miss you, and we are here for your family. You are a true hero and will never be forgotten.

Beth Whipple, Dispatcher
Fairfield County Sheriff's Office

January 12, 2006

may god bless and dep.collins will never be forgotten in the law enforcement family.

dep.hummel
fair field co s-o

January 12, 2006

Our hearts & prayers are with you as you go through this though time. May God bless!

Wife of Deputy 581
Douglas County Sheriff's Office

January 12, 2006

May God Bless the Peacekeepers. Thank you, Deputy Collins, for keeping US safe. Godspeed.

LISA
Georgia Civilian

January 12, 2006

Ethan, Whenever backup is called, I try to make a point of thanking whoever comes to assist. On Wednesday, January 4, I never got to thank you. I know you thought I was in danger and was trying to get to me. I can still hear the last thing you said on the radio. I can still hear the sound of your siren in the background as you spoke. Your courage will always inspire me, and your sacrifice will never be forgotten. I will miss you and I will mourn for you. But above all, Ethan, Thank You.

Sgt. Jay Barton
Lithopolis Police Department

January 12, 2006