Ellen Juliet Collins - Online Memorial Website

This memorial website was created to remember our dearest Ellen Juliet Collins who was born in Louisiana on December 4, 1973 and passed away on December 27, 1998. You will live forever in our memories and hearts.
Juliet was taken from us suddenly and will never be forgotten.  The circumstances surrounding her death have been the hardest to deal with.  She was murdered 2 days after Christmas 1998.  The last memory I have was her leaving out of my doorway saying "love u too".   It was like pulling teeth to get her to say those words....She came off as a very strong-willed person and not very affectionate.  But to truly know her, there was another side to her that was completely opposite.  She was definitely "one of a kind".

She was murdered by someone she barely even knew...he shot her with a bow as if she were some type of animal. The frigid waters of the Atchafalaya  was searched for 41 days....he was convicted of second-degree murder.  His family gets to visit him while Juliet's two daughters are left without a mother....... 

I wrote Juliet a letter a few days after she came up missing.  This was read at her memorial service:

  How do I begin?!  I never thought that I would have to say good-bye, especially this way.  I always assumed that we would be together.  Although I know this is not good-bye because we will meet again.

  In the 11 years that we've been friends, we've had disagreements but we've always stood by one another.  In some instances it made our friendship stronger.

  Losing you is one of the hardest things I've had to face.   There are things that we know about one another that no one else does.  Things that we swore we'd take to our grave.  Only problem with that is you took it too soon.  

  You had so many of your own worries and yet you carried all of mine too.  Friends come a dime a dozen, but a true friend only comes once in a lifetime. And I'm so proud to have you.  No one will ever take your place - not even come close.

  I'm trying not to be angry with you for leaving me so soon; we were supposed to grow old together.  I wonder now if you knew just how much I loved you.  That was our last words to one another.

  One thing I have that can never be taken away is my memories - laughter & tears.

  You've taken a piece of my heart with you but I'll get it back one day.  You're my guardian angel. I can see you smiling down at me, all the worries washed away, so beautiful.

  Until we meet again, all my love.