John Frank Cottral 1882 - 1964

COTTRAL, WULF, GRAY, REYNOLDS, GIBBS, MOSS, CARROLL, LARSON, DALLAGER, MCDERMET, RODRIGUEZ

Posted By: Michael J. Kearney (email)
Date: 5/14/2012 at 20:08:14

The Clinton Herald Wednesday March 25, 1964 p 7 John Frank Cottral, 81, 1604 N. 5th St., died at Mercy Hospital at 9:40 p.m. Tuesday. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Pape funeral home. The Rev. Martin S. Bredow will officiate, with burial in the Memorial Park Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 4 p.m. today. Mr. Cottral was born in Sabula, Oct. 30, 1882, the son of Frank and Caroline Wulf Cottral. He was married Aug. 12, 1907, to Mary Gray. Educated in the Miles schools, he was a carpenter. He was baptized and confirmed in the Lutheran faith. Survivors are his wife; two sons, Lyle L. and Earl D., both of Clinton; five daughters, Mrs. Edmund (Hazel) Reynolds of Elkader, Mrs. George (Velma) Gibbs of Ventura, Calif., Mrs. Robert (Thelma) Moss of Clinton, Mrs. Eugene J. (Muriel) Carroll of South Gate, Calif. and Mrs. Merlin D. (Marjorie) Larson, Bismark, N.D.; one sister, Mrs. John Dallager, Maquoketa; two half-sisters, Mrs. E.R. McDermet of Colorado Springs, Colo. and Mrs. George J. Rodriquez, Denver, Colo.; and one half-brother, Donald Cottral of California; 12 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents and one brother.