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A memorial service for Mr. Cotton will be at 5 p.m.
Thursday at Quiram-Peasley Funeral Home in Atlanta,
with Jeff Kindred officiating. Military rites will
be accorded by American Legion Post 341. Visitation
will be from 3 p.m. until the service time on
Thursday at the funeral home. Burial will be in
Atlanta Cemetery at a later date.
He retired from S and S Construction.
He was in the U.S. Air Force during the Korean
War, serving on a radar crew on the 38th parallel.
Loren Snowden "Doc" Cotton was born on July 19,
1931, in Eureka. His parents were Snowden and Eula
Mae Jones Cotton.
He is survived by his children, Lori Denise
Cotton of Bloomington, Loren Stephen Cotton of
Atlanta and Elizabeth Mae "Libby" (and Michael)
Mederich of Atlanta; two granddaughters, Alexandra
Foster and Stephanie Foster; and one brother,
Raymond (and Jean) Cotton of Rockaway, Mo.
He was also preceded in death by three sisters
and one brother.
He was a member of the Eminence Christian Church
and American Legion Post 341 in Atlanta, where he
was past commander of the post. He was a former
member of the school board for Olympia District 16.
He was also a member of the Atlanta Masonic Lodge
and Order of the Eastern Star.
He was an outdoorsman and a friend to everyone he
met.
He graduated from Atlanta High School in 1949.
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