Extracted from The Alexandria Daily Town Talk (Alexandria, LA)
Friday, July 22, 2011

Nell R. Cotten

Funeral services for Nell R. Cotten, 81, of Dry Prong will be held in the Chapel of Hixson Brothers Funeral Home in Jena on Sunday, July 24, 2011 at 11 a.m. with Revs. Randall Walker and Charles Freeman officiating. Interment will follow in the Taylor Chapel Cemetery in Summerville. Visitation will be at 11 a.m. until 9 p.m. on Saturday, July 23, 2011 at Hixson Brothers, Jena.

Mrs. Cotten was born on April 16, 1930 in Jena and passed from this life on July 21, 2011 at Odessy Hospice in Houston, Texas.

She was a homemaker.

She is survived by two daughters, Nelda Cortez of Houston, Texas and Marilyn Leonard of Colfax; two sons, Joe Cotten of Georgetown and Larry Cotten of Tioga; one sister, Martha Sterreck; one brother, Tom Lofton of Houston, Texas and ten grandchildren and fifteen great grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by parents, William and Myra Beavers Lofton; husband, Lonnie Cotten; sisters, Hattie Taylor, Jessie Keene, Elsie Keene and Loya Cotten; brothers, Alvin and Calvin Lofton.

Pallbearers will be Chad Desoto, Joushua Leonard, Justin Leonard, Larry Cotten, Jr., Dewayne Chappell and Mario Flores.

You may send online condolences to the Cotten family at www.hixsonbrothers.com.