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Donald Cotton
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[January
04, 2010]
Donald
E. Cotton, 85, of Lincoln, died Friday, Jan. 1,
2010, at 12:43 a.m. at Lincoln Christian
Village.
Visitation will be 4-7 p.m. Tuesday at
Fricke-Calvert-Schrader Funeral Home in Lincoln.
His funeral will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at
Zion Lutheran Church in Lincoln, with Pastor
Mark Thompson officiating. |
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Burial will be in Mount Pulaski Cemetery, with
military rites conducted by American Legion Post
341 of Atlanta.
Mr. Cotton was a retired grocer. He had been
the manager at the Mount Pulaski Kroger and
owned Cotton's Corner Grocery in Atlanta.
During World War II he served in the Marine
Corps in the South Pacific.
He was born Dec. 15, 1924, at Funks Grove to
Doc and Eula M. Jones Cotton. He married Mildred
Fullriede on Dec. 2, 1951, in Mount Pulaski.
He is survived by his wife, of Lincoln; three
daughters, Kathy (and Jim) Bicknell of Atlanta,
Julie (and Michael) Mittelsteadt of Lincoln and
Donise (and Dave) Schrader of Tremont; two
brothers, Raymond (and Jean) Cotton of Rockaway
Beach, Mo., and Loren Cotton of Bloomington;
five grandchildren; and three
great-grandchildren.
Three sisters preceded him in death. |
He was a member of Zion Lutheran Church in
Lincoln and American Legion Post 341 in Atlanta.
Memorials may be made to his church.
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