Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Cotton, Ralph Kent 1953 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Sandy Heintzelman sheintz@iserv.net May 27, 2011, 1:36 pm Portland Observer, 5 Mar 1953 Kent Cotton Buried Here On Tuesday Ralph Kent Cotton, 59, passed away Sunday at the Veteran’s Hospital in Dearborn where he had been a patient. Rev. Hollis Tiffany officiated at funeral services held Tuesday afternoon at Neller Funeral Home. Survivors are the wife, Beatrice; son, Ralph Cotton, of Portland; four grandchildren; sisters, Mrs. Herbert Jameson, of Portland and Mrs. Fred Hegle, of Lansing. Burial was in Portland cemetery. Bearers were Harry Owen, Frank Day, James Iiams, Frank Fandel, Clarence Barnes and William Harris. The bearers are all members of Dale E. Hyland Post, American Legion, of which Mr. Cotton was a member. Local business places were closed Tuesday afternoon during time of funeral. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/c/cotton12500nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.3 Kb