Mary Jane Cotton

Mary Jane Cotton, 91, formerly of North Charleroi, died Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012, in Monongahela Valley Hospital. Mrs. Cotton was born March 2, 1920, in North Charleroi, a daughter of the late Earl A. Nicholson and Mary Glunt Nicholson. Mrs. Cotton graduated from Charleroi High School with the class of 1937, was a graduate of California University of Pennsylvania, and taught in the Charleroi School District. Mrs. Cotton was a member of the Presbyterian Church in Charleroi and was a former member of the Presbyterian Choir. She was a past president of the Monday Music Club of Charleroi, a past president of the Athene Club in Charleroi, a member of the Order of Eastern Star, John K. Tener Library, AARP and the Charleroi Historical Society. Mrs. Cotton was married to the late Charles Kenneth Cotton Sr., of North Charleroi. She was a loving mother, wife, grandmother and great-grandmother. Surviving are her two daughters and sons-in-law, Barbara and Gerald Bocci, of San Francisco, Calif., and Karen and Thomas Barger Sr., of Mission Viejo, Calif.; and her son and daughter-in-law, Robert D. and Gina Cotton, of Eighty Four; two stepsons and daughters-in-law, Charles Kenneth Cotton Jr., and Karen Cotton, of Brighton, Mich., and R. Keith Cotton and Cathy Cotton, of Griffin, Ga.; 10 grandchildren, Kellie Barger Noell, Thomas Barger Jr., Cassandra Barger Christy, Shellie Cotton, Bobby Cotton, Kara Cotton, Shawn Cotton, Kerri Cotton Robertson, Kendra Cotton and Kourtney Cotton Fassler; seven great-grandchildren, Ross, Ryan and Reid Robertson, Calvin and Carter Cotton, Jackson Christy and Addyson Smith. In addition to her husband and parents, she was preceded in death by two brothers, Rear Admiral Richard E. Nicholson and Robert J. Nicholson; and by her first husband, Charles J. Booth. Friends will be received on Friday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. in the SCHROCK-HOGAN FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATION SERVICES INC., 226 Fallowfield Ave., Charleroi, where funeral services will be held on Saturday at 11 a.m. with the Rev. Mark Woomer officiating. Interment will follow in the Monongahela Cemetery. Online condolences for the family are being accepted at www.schrock-hogan.com.