CUTLER, Retta (Cotter) 1862-1818

CUTLER, COTTER

Posted By: Marilyn O'Connor (email)
Date: 3/9/2012 at 10:04:58

Obituary-Cutler

Retta Cotter Cutler, only daughter of Cyrus H. and Sarah A. Cotter, was born in Osage, Iowa, on December 2, 1862, and died in New Mexico Cottage Sanitarium at Silver City, New Mexico on March 25, 1918, at 1:05 a.m. of pulmonary tuberculosis. With the exception of four years in Nebraska and three in California as a girl, and two years after marriage, she lived all her life in Osage, Iowa. It was here that she was married to John Cutler on June 1, 1887. The union was blest with four sons, Frank C., Rex R. J. Walter and Victor H., all of whom survive to mourn her loss.

Mrs. Cutler was an exceptionally competent woman, a devoted mother and loving wife, attending to the needs of her family faithfully and conscientously, frequently working far beyond her strength. It can truly be said that she was one of God's noble women, always thinking of others and how she might serve them. Her ideals were of the highest and best. She was a finely balanced woman; and it can be truly said that all who knew her were her friends.

She was extremely interested in social activities, and she served these interests so faithfully and well that she was elected to the highest offices in such societies as the P.E.O.; Eastern Star; Shakespeareann club; Ladies Cemetery Association. At the time of her death she was president of the Easter Star Kensington.

She had been in failing health for some time, but the first alarming symptoms were not recognized by her family until January of this year. She was immediately taken to the sanitarium considered to be the best in the United States; and from the time she arrived until March 22, all reports from there indicated that she was improving. On the evening of March 22, her two sons, Frank and Rex, who lived at Hurley, N.N., eighteen miles from Silver City, were notified that she had a sinking spell. They hastened to her bed side, but nothing could be done and she passed away on Monday morning, March 25, at 1:50.

Besides her husband, her four sons, there remains to mourn her loss, her mother, Sarah A. Cotter, and her brother, Frank Cotter. Her father preceded her to the great beyond by eight years.

Perhaps her life's work can be expressed in no better words that those of the great apostle, "I have fought a good fight, I have finished me course. I have kept the faith. Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness".

Mitchell County Press
April 3, 1918