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Show W. F. Cottrell Dies Suddenly At Home Of His Son In Ohio Milford people in every walk of li.'e were grievously shocked Sun- day as circulation was given to ord from Oxford, Ohio, of the ..udden death there of W. F. Cottrell, Cot-trell, 08, veteran railroad man and church and civic worker of Milford. Mr. and Mrs. Cottrell had left the preceding Wednesday morning on train 14 for a visit with their son, Dr. Fred Cottrell, a member of the faculty of Miami university, and family, and, though naturally tired from the trip, Mr. Cottrell spoke of feeling especially fine that Sunday morning. Following a walk in the garden with Fred, he had seated himself at a typewriter to write to home folks and had been left to himself. It was only a short time later that he was discovered dis-covered dead with only the words, "Dear Roy," on the letter he had begun. Death was due to a heart attack and a peaceful ending had come to a life well filled with good deeds and constant thought-fulness thought-fulness and consideration for his family, for the people of the community com-munity and for worthwhile activities activi-ties of all kinds. Wednesday afternoon on train 7 the body arrived home, accompanied accomp-anied by the bereaved widow and son, and was taken to the local M. E. church where it lay in state until the funeral service at 2:00 o'clock Thursday, a fitting gesture to a man who had been, throughout through-out his long residence in Milford, a veritable pillar of the little church on the corner. Dr. W. E. Blackstock, superintendent superin-tendent of the Utah Methodist mission, mis-sion, gave the message at the service ser-vice Thursday afternoon and musical musi-cal numbers included vocal duets by Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Martin and a male quartet number directed by Mr. Martin, with Mrs. W. H. Hendrickson acting as accompan- ( Continued on last page) W.F. Cottrell Dies (Continued from page 3 ) ist. The casket was open from 10:00 a.m. to the hour of the service, ser-vice, Miss Lucile Estes, local pastor, pas-tor, and Mrs. A. E. Smith of Salt Lake acting as church hostesses. Interment was in the Milforc cemetery. William Franklin Cottrell was born at Oregon, Missouri, August 25, 1867, and died at the home ol his son, Dr. W. F. Cottrell, in Ox-ford, Ox-ford, Ohio, April 26, 1936, at 10 :3C a.m. He was married to Alice C McCubbin at Huntington, Oregon on May 31, 1891, and six childrer were born of this union, he -being survived by the widow and foui children, Mrs. J. F. Tribole and Roy Cottrell of Milford, Mrs. Lee Gray of Cedar City and Dr. W. F Cottrell of Oxford, Ohio. Alsc surviving are eight grandchildren one sister, Mrs. Laura Smith oi Holton, Kansas; and two half-sisters, Mrs. L. G. Reinke of Maple-wood, Maple-wood, Oregon, and Mrs. J. H. Horigan of Prineville, Oregon. Mr. Cottrell .began his railroad career at The Dalles, Oregon, ir 1887 and, with the exception oi j two or three years at the beginning begin-ning of the century, served the Union Pacific railroad and its present pres-ent subsidiaries continuously unti' his retirement in January, 1932. He came to Milford August 27 1904, his family following a short time later, and has resided here continuously except for a short period spent in Provo, to which place he was transferred in May 1930. He was a member of the Ode Fellows lodge and the Union Pacific Paci-fic Oldtimers club. He served one i term as president of the Milforjj ! town board and one term on the district school board. He had beer j an active member of the M. E church -since it was organizec I here and had been a generous supporter sup-porter of school, church and community com-munity activities, it being a verj rare thing for Mr. and Mrs. Cottrell Cot-trell not to be present at a play program or any other affair oi similar nature, no matter undei what sponsorship. He was exceptionally considerate of his wife and the break in theii j ideal life together is going to be j hard for Mrs. Cottrell to beat ! though she has thus far met hei loss and that of the community at I the courageous woman she is wel' ' known to be. |