Charleston Daily Mail Charleston, WV March 19, 1998 Lillian H. Cosby Lillian Higginbotham Cosby, 79, of Rand died Saturday, March 14, 1998, at home after a long illness. She was a member of Levi First Missionary Baptist Church, a 1939 graduate of Garnet High School, Charleston Chapter NAACP and Henry Highland Garnett Foundation. Surviving: sons, Carl Cosby Jr. of Atlanta, Ga., William Benjamin and Higginbotham Cosby of Rand; daughters, Joan Lain and Mable Jones of Rand, Margo Perkins of Charleston; sisters, Phyllis Meadows and Hellena Higginbotham of Rand, Blanche Pollard of Yonkers, N.Y.; nine grandchildren; four great- grandchildren. Service will be 1 p.m. Saturday at Levi First Missionary Baptist Church with the Rev. Ben Merchant officiating. Burial will be in Tyler Mountain Memory Gardens, Cross Lanes. Friends may call from 7:30 to 8 p.m. Friday at the church. Scott Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.