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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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