Daily Oklahoman
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
July 3, 1959
page 41
Body Brought To Sallisaw For Services
Sallisaw - Funeral for Bert Cotton Sr., 70, prominent Sallisaw
resident who died in a New Mexico traffic accident Tuesday, will
be announced by the Agent funeral home here.
Cotton, who retired January 1 as an inspector for the state
corporation commission, was a member of the First Christian
church here. A well-known local resident, he was for several
years Sallisaw's chief of police and also served as Sequoyah
county undersheriff under former sheriffs John E. Johnston and
the late Charley Hutchens.
A veteran of World War I, Cotton was a member of the local
American Legion Post and Odd Fellows.
Survivors are his wife, Ruby; a son, Dr. Bert Cotton Jr.,
Pasadena, Calif.; four brothers, Bob and Carl, Sallisaw, and
Guy, Meeker, and Earl Cotton, Tulsa; a sister, Mrs. Bill
Stewart, Sallisaw; and two grandsons.
Burial will be in Sallisaw City Cemetery.
Contributed by Marti Graham, December 2003. Information
posted as courtesy to researchers. The contributor is not
related to nor researching any of the above.
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