Jerri Cross

Jerri Dean Cross CottenFRISCO - Jerri Dean Cross Cotten, 47, a former Amarillo resident, died Monday, May 12, 1997.Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday in McKinney Chapel Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints with Bishop Jonathan Roberts officiating. Graveside services will be at 4 p.m. in Bridges Chapel Cemetery near Talco. Arrangements are by Wood Funeral Home of Bogata.Mrs. Cotten was born in Amarillo and lived here for 22 years. She attended South Lawn, South Georgia and Alice Landergin elementary schools and Fannin Junior High School and graduated in 1968 from Amarillo High School.She attended Amarillo Junior College and received her bachelor's degree from West Texas State University in 1972 and her master's of education degree from Texas Tech University in 1974.She taught at Rogers Elementary School at Frisco for 12 years and was the elementary counselor from 1993 until her death.She married Larry Cotten in 1975.Survivors include her husband; her children, Ryan Cotten, Amanda Cotten and Rex Cotten; her parents, Buddy and Wanda Cross of Amarillo; and a sister, Jimmie Hopkins of Colorado.The family will receive friends from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday at Cantrell Funeral Home at Frisco.