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:
“The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind of decoration. Not really important to turning around the wheels of the state. Well the black American woman has never been able to feel that way. No black American man at any time in our history in the United States has been able to feel that he didn’t need that black woman right against him, shoulder to shoulder—in that cotton field, on the auction block, in the ghetto, wherever.”
—Maya Angelou (b. 1928)