Family Card - Person Sheet
Family Card - Person Sheet
NameWilliam Harold Cotton 
Birth28 Oct 1925, Badin, Stanly County, NC
Death7 Apr 2009
Burial9 Apr 2009, Fairview Memorial Park, Albemarle, Stanly County, NC
FatherClarence V. Cotton (1889-1962)
MotherLela Josephine Cox (1895-1980)
Spouses
Birth10 Jul 1926
Death26 Feb 2011, Stanly Regional Medical Center, Albemarle, Stanly County, NC
Burial28 Feb 2011, Fairview Memorial Park, Albemarle, Stanly County, NC
FatherThomas Edgar Harris (1884-1950)
MotherBertie Emmabelle Miller (1886-1972)
ChildrenWilliam Harold
John T.
Notes for William Harold Cotton
William Cotton, Sr.
Thursday, April 9, 2009 — William “Harold” Cotton, Sr., 83, died on April 7, 2009. The family received friends at 10 a.m. Thursday, April 9 in the fellowship hall of Central United Methodist Church, Albemarle, followed by a funeral service in the sanctuary at 11 a.m. Burial was in Fairview Memorial Park. Mr. Cotton was born Oct. 28, 1925, in Badin Hospital, Badin. He graduated from Badin High School and attended Oak Ridge Military Academy and Western Carolina University. Mr. Cotton served in the U.S. Navy in World War II as a Coxswain’s mate on the destroyer U.S.S. Robert F. Keller. He retired from Alcoa with 32 years of service. He was preceded in death by his parents, Clarence V. Cotton and Lela C. Cotton, and one brother, John McDonald Cotton. He is survived by his wife, Julia H. Cotton; his two sons, William H. Cotton, Jr. and wife, Melissa, of Raleigh and John T. Cotton and his wife, Katherine, of Birmingham, Ala.; three grandsons, John Ryan Cotton of Jacksonville, Fla., Benjamin Austin Cotton of Niceville, Fla. and Lee Hawthorne Cotton of Birmingham, Ala. Memorials may be made to: Central United Methodist Church, 172 N. Second St., Albemarle, NC 28001, or Alzheimer’s Association, 3800 Shamrock Drive, Charlotte, NC 28215. Hartsell Funeral Home-Albemarle is in charge.
Stanly News & Press, 10 Apr 2009
Thursday, April 9, 2009 — William “Harold” Cotton, Sr., 83, died on April 7, 2009. The family received friends at 10 a.m. Thursday, April 9 in the fellowship hall of Central United Methodist Church, Albemarle, followed by a funeral service in the sanctuary at 11 a.m. Burial was in Fairview Memorial Park. Mr. Cotton was born Oct. 28, 1925, in Badin Hospital, Badin. He graduated from Badin High School and attended Oak Ridge Military Academy and Western Carolina University. Mr. Cotton served in the U.S. Navy in World War II as a Coxswain’s mate on the destroyer U.S.S. Robert F. Keller. He retired from Alcoa with 32 years of service. He was preceded in death by his parents, Clarence V. Cotton and Lela C. Cotton, and one brother, John McDonald Cotton. He is survived by his wife, Julia H. Cotton; his two sons, William H. Cotton, Jr. and wife, Melissa, of Raleigh and John T. Cotton and his wife, Katherine, of Birmingham, Ala.; three grandsons, John Ryan Cotton of Jacksonville, Fla., Benjamin Austin Cotton of Niceville, Fla. and Lee Hawthorne Cotton of Birmingham, Ala. Memorials may be made to: Central United Methodist Church, 172 N. Second St., Albemarle, NC 28001, or Alzheimer’s Association, 3800 Shamrock Drive, Charlotte, NC 28215. Hartsell Funeral Home-Albemarle is in charge.
Stanly News & Press, 10 Apr 2009