Russell ‘Rusty’ Dean Cottrell
Rusty Cottrell, 70, of Bowling Green died Sunday, Aug. 20, 2017 at Moore-Pike Nursing Home after a hard-fought battle with cancer.
Services are scheduled for Saturday at Bibb-Veach Funeral Home in Bowling Green.
Visitation will begin at 2 p.m., with a memorial service following at 3 p.m. His wishes were to be cremated and for his remains to be scattered over his favorite place on the family farm in rural Clarksville which was his home for most of his life.
Rusty was b orn March 12, 1947 on a rural farm near Grassy Creek Church to Robert E. and Anna Mae Stringer Cottrell.
Rusty attended school at Clarksville and Clopton schools. When his schooling was finished he worked on the family farm. He later worked at the livestock markets in Bowling Green and Troy. Rusty worked for many years on the farm of John and Eugene Niemeyer. He later worked for Greg Wyble as a farmhand until he bcame disabled.
He enjoyed hunting deer, rabbits, and squirrels of which deer hunting was his passion. He enjoyed fishing in the ponds on the family farm. In the spring he hunted morel mushrooms and he always seemed to know the right places to look because he always seemed to be successful in fining them. He was amember of the Dover Baptist Church where he was baptized.
Rusty is survived by two children, a daughter, Kruystal Sevier and husband, Steve and a son, Korey Cottrell, both of Bowling Green; one grandson, Jordin Bennet of Louisiana; and two granddaughters, Paige and Kenzie Cassidy of Vandalia; a sister, Delores Burgmeyer and special friend, Dick Dowell of Bowling Green; five brothers, Donald Cottrell and wife, Sue Nell, Warner Robins, Ga., Glen Cottrell and wife, Sue, Louisiana, John Cottrell and wife, Marcie, and Robert Cottrell, both of Clarksville; and Nathan Cottrell and wife, Lee Amy, Nixa; step-mother, Janet Cottrell and step-sister, Kathy Snow, both of New London. He had many nieces, nephews, cousins, great- and great-great-nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Robert and Anna Mae Cottrell, his paternal grandparents, Edward L. and Dollie Lee Riechard Cottrell, maternal grandparents, John N. and AppleLonie Stark Stringer and one step-brother, Christopher Morris.
Memorials in his honor may be made to Community Loving Care Hospital, 914 Main St., Bowling Green, MO 63334.
