Obituary: Jefferson City Post-Tribune, Wednesday, February 6, 2002 Rufus Cottrell, 76, Tuscumbia, died Feb. 4, 2002, at Lake Regional Hospital, Osage Beach. He was born June 9, 1925, in Meta, a son of Ed and Nellie Clark Cottrell. He was married in 1979 to Thelma Opland, who survives. He worked at a saw mill and was a Navy veteran of World War II. Other survivors include: one son, Steve Cottrell, Eldon; four daughters, Marilyn Conway, Kansas City, Sheila Dennis, Grandview, Janet MeGowan, Crocker, and Jeanne Carrall, Shawnee, Kan.; one brother, Wayne Cottrell, Ft. Smith, Ark.; two sisters, Thelma Thompson, Rolla, and Bonnie Johnson, Clinton; 11 grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren. Services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at Hedges Funeral Home, Osage Beach. Inurement will be in the Rodden Cemetery in Brumley.