Harold “Cotton” Henderson
Harold “Cotton” Henderson
Sigourney
Harold “Cotton” Henderson, 100, died May 5, 2023, at the Windsor Place Senior Living Assisted Living in Sigourney. He was born Aug. 8, 1922, at his home in Davis County, Iowa, to Glenn and Faye (White) Henderson. He graduated from Bloomfield High school. He received his teaching certificate and taught for a few years before being drafted into the United States Army during the WWII. During his time in the Army, Cotton received two battle starts and worked as an Army Corps Engineer where he helped build bridges over the Rhine River. On Dec. 24, 1948, he married Lois Colleen Smothers in Davenport, Iowa. They moved to the Floris area in 1955 where they lived and farmed. Cotton worked for Davis County as an equipment operator, retiring in 1984. They moved to Blairstown in 1984 and to Arkansas in 1985 and then back to Blairstown in 1989 and in 2017 they made their home in Sigourney. Cotton enjoyed county and polka music, watching rodeos and Westerns, playing cards, and fishing. If you had something that needed fixed, he was the one to ask. He would fix just about anything. He loved his grandchildren, great-grandchildren and his wife Lois.
He was preceded in death by his parents; daughter Cynthia Gregory; and siblings Harvey Henderson, Normalee Calvert, Dean Henderson, and Martha Marie “John” Parchert.
He is survived by granddaughter Rhonda Peery (Korey Kriz) of Cedar Rapids; grandson Clayton Gregory of Kentucky; five great-grandchildren, Wylde Wisner, Scarlett Wisner, Raylan Wisner, Zayne Peery and Zoey Kriz; sister Karen (Gordon) Guffey of Eldridge; bonus daughter Carol (John) Stutzman of Sigourney; and nephew Randy Smothers.
Funeral Service: Friday May 12, 2023, at noon at the Holm Funeral Home, Sigourney. Visitation: Friday, May 12, 2023, 11 a.m. to noon, at the Holm Funeral Home. Burial: Friday, May 12, 2023, at 3:30 p.m. at Bloomfield IOOF Cemetery in Bloomfield, Iowa. Arrangements: Holm Funeral Home, Sigourney, Iowa.
