William F. Cotton
(1) Genieve Hathorn Cotton (maried 1929-1963, her death)
William F. "Bill" Cotton Sr. (October 23, 1897 – April 23, 2006) was a prominent central Louisiana businessman who acquired or built five bakeries in Alexandria, Shreveport, Baton Rouge, Monroe and Natchez, Mississippi. At the time of his death at the age of 108, he was also the nation's oldest living Shriner and one of the last remaining American veterans of the First World War.
Read more about William F. Cotton: Education and Military Service, Cotton Brothers Bakery, Extensive Civic Leadership
Famous quotes containing the word cotton:
“We are constituted a good deal like chickens, which, taken from the hen, and put in a basket of cotton in the chimney-corner, will often peep till they die, nevertheless; but if you put in a book, or anything heavy, which will press down the cotton, and feel like the hen, they go to sleep directly.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)