Palestine High School Alumni Association

11 / 14 / 1936  –  07 / 07 / 2003

Services for Carlon J. “Pinnie” Cotton Freeman, 66, of Palestine will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at Bailey & Foster Chapel with the Rev. Roger Roper officiating. Burial will follow in Prickard Cemetery under the direction of Bailey & Foster Funeral Home.

Mrs. Freeman died Monday at Baylor Hospital in Garland.

She was born November 14, 1936 in Palestine to Quinton and Jewel Camp Cotton.

Mrs. Freeman was a homemaker. She was a member of The Christ Community church.

She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, A.L. “Bud” Freeman, in 1997; daughter, Janie Patton, in 1982; brothers, Garland Cotton and Emmett Cotton; and sister Louise Butler.

Mrs. Freeman is survived by daughters, Tina Malloy of Galveston and April Huddleston of Palestine; sons, Forrest Crawford and Mike Crawford, both of Elkhart; sister, Margaret Pickard of Brushy Creek; brother, Dalton Cotton and Lee Cotton, both of Palestine; 12 grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.

Pallbearers will be Chris Bridges, Neil Bridges, David Prickard, JJ Prickard, Junior Cotton, Roger Dale, Todd Redd and Jonathan Walling.

Honorary pallbearer will be Jim Bob Paxton.

Source: Palestine Herald-Press 07-08-2003