Roy Cottrell

Roy L. Cottrell, 67 of Headlee, died Saturday, March 15, 2003, at Clarian Health partners, Methodist Campus, Indianapolis.

He was born November 12, 1935, in Calhoun County, W.Va., to John Jackson and Stella Ann Cottrell. He married Violet Humphrey in Zanesville, Ohio on May 6, 1959, and they were divorced. He then married Barbara Ann Cottrell in Pulaski County on March 17,1990. She died on December 26, 1994.

He moved to the Monticello area in 1965.

He was an off-bearer for Hites Sawmill in Buffalo, where he worked for 35 years before retiring two years ago.

He liked to play dominoes and horseshoes and work in his garden.

Surviving with his ex-wife, of Reynolds, are sons John Cottrell, Joe Cottrell and Daniel Cottrell, all of Monticello; daughters Donna Snavley of Idaville and Diane Alviles of Delphi; sisters, Viola Helmic of Minnora, W. Va., Alma Frazier of North Judson and Feila Cottrell of Zanesville, Ohio; brother, Orin "Duffy" Cottrell of Minnora, W. Va.; companion, Lulu belle Finley of Headlee; 12 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

A daughter, three brothers and three sisters are deceased.

Funeral Services were Tuesday at Harrison-Metzger Funeral Home, Royal Center.

Burial was in the Bell Center Cemetery.