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Donald Cotton

[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.

Burial will be in Mount Pulaski Cemetery, with military rites conducted by an honor guard from Atlanta American Legion Post 341 and Mount Pulaski American Legion Post 447.

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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