Margaret "Peewee" Cotten

April 26, 1932 - July 4, 2017

Funeral services for Margaret “Peewee” Spears Cotten, 85, of Wisner, LA, who passed away on Tuesday, July 4, 2017, at Plantation Oaks Nursing Home, will be at 10am on Saturday, July 8, at New Hope Pentecostal Church with Bro. Chris Hamilton, Bro. Arlie Riley, and Bro. Cecil Grantham officiating. Interment will follow at New Pine Hill Cemetery under the direction of Comer Funeral Home- Ferriday, LA. Visitation will be held at the church from 6pm until 9pm on Friday. Margaret was born on April 26, 1932 in Crowville, LA to James J. Spears and Nannie Smith Spears. She was a member of New Hope Pentecostal Church and was a former member of Jesus Name Home Church of Laurel, MS, for 30 years. Margaret was a homemaker, a seamstress for a garment factory, and also worked in small county stores. She enjoyed sewing and cooking. She loved spending time with her family, especially her grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her Parents; Husband, William J. “Dub” Cotten; two sons, Rodney Cotten and Michael Cotten; one brother; and three sisters. She is survived by her two sons, Steve Cotten and wife Aline of Springfield, LA and James Cotten and wife Kim of Winnsboro; two daughters, Ginger Cochran of Ellisville, MS and Latrecia Boothe and husband Robert of Winnsboro; three sisters, Judy Mason, Jimmie Lou Walston, and Edith Ellis; 7 grandchildren; and 17 great grandchildren.