Dorothy Ruth Cotter
August 22, 1929 - October 5, 2014
Dorothy Ruth Cotter, 85, died on Sunday, October 5, 2014. Funeral Services will be at 2:00 pm, Wednesday, October 8, 2014 at LaGrone Blackburn Shaw Coulter Road Chapel with Sherman Eastland officiating. Burial will follow in Llano East Cemetery. Arrangements are by LaGrone Blackburn Shaw Funeral Directors, 8310 S. Coulter.
Dorothy Cotter was born on August 22, 1929 to Novie and Pearl Nixon in Hart Camp, Texas. Dorothy graduated from Littlefield High School. She married her husband Ray on October 30, 1948 in Portales, NM. Dorothy was a homemaker and kept her grandchildren. She loved to do crafts and loved to sew, crochet and knit. Dorothy really enjoyed watching her family play sports and loved to play "skipbo" and recently had taken up playing bingo at the Hudson House.
She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband Ray, a brother Billy Nixon and a great granddaughter Malori and a great grandson Maddox.
She is survived by her two sons, Kevin Cotter and wife Linda of Canyon and Lee Cotter and wife Carolyn of Amarillo; a brother, Jimmy Nixon and wife Doris of Durant, OK., a sister, Daphene Harris of Meridian, MS; four grandchildren, Stephanie Stewart and husband Ken of Amarillo, Toby Cotter and wife Cheryn of Canyon, Aaron Cotter and Jennifer Cotter, both of Amarillo; eight great grandchildren, Kacey, Taryn, Sydnee, Neely, Keylin, Zayden, Bennett, and Baylee.
The family will be receiving friends on Tuesday, October 7, 2014 from 5:30 - 7:00 pm at LaGrone Blackburn Shaw Coulter Road Chapel.
The family requests In lieu of flowers that donations be made to your favorite charity.