Juanita Cote

JUANITA COTE

ROSSTON — Funeral services for Juanita Cote, 86, of Rosston will be at 10 a.m. Saturday, July 31, 2010 at Forestburg Methodist Church with Rev. Ronnie Blankenship of Hughes Baptist Church of Lindsay, Okla., Rev. Ricky Kerry, of Saint Jo Missionary Baptist Church and Rev. Sam Campbell of Forestburg Methodist Church, officiating. Pallbearers will be Andy Blankenship, Darrell Sutton, Brian Sutton, Thomas Fortuna, David Bennett and Brian Phillips. Burial will follow in Rosston Cemetery. Services are under the direction of Geo. J. Carroll & Son Funeral Home.

Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday evening at Geo.

J. Carroll & Son Funeral Home.

Juanita Cote passed away July 27, 2010 at Medical Center in Plano. She was born to Anderson Paul and Delia Mae

(Richardson) Sutton, March 15, 1924 in Prairie Point. She attended Ross Point School and graduated from Era High School. She married Tom Cote Aug. 17, 1944 in Gainesville. Juanita retired from the Grand Prairie ISD where she was a lunchroom manager for South Grand Prairie High School. She was a member of Eastern Star #219 in Grand Prairie, Forestburg United Methodist Church and Prairie Point Church of the Nazarene.

Juanita Cote was a loving mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. She is survived by a daughter and son-in-law, Karen and John Fortuna of Richmond, Va.; brothers, Travis Sutton and his wife Sue of Rosston and Ross Sutton of Rosston; grandchildren, Thomas Cote Fortuna and wife Richa, Katelyn Ashley Fortuna, Jennifer Emma Phillips and husband Brian, all of Virginia, and Janine Marie Fortuna of New York; great-grandchildren, Cote and Emma Phillips of Virginia and numerous nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents, Paul and Delia Sutton; husband, Tom Cote and sisters, Johnnie Ruth Blankenship and Callie Presley.

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