Carolyn (known as “Cotton” to everyone she knew) Rutherford was born November 20, 1946 in Vinita, Oklahoma to parents Roy and Edna Foust. The family moved to Arcata when she was just six months old. With the exception of six months in Oklahoma and about eight years in Ukiah she was a lifelong Humboldt County resident.

She raised two sons and was a second mom to all of her sons’ friends (most of whom called her mom). Cotton loved sewing and drawing. She had an art booth at the Eureka Flea Market until it closed and enjoyed socializing with the friends she made there.

As the seventh of nine children she had a great multitude of brothers, sisters, nieces and nephews and she adored them all. But her pride and joy were her three grandchildren and she lit up whenever they were around. Between friends and family, and friends of family, and family of friends, her house was never empty. After many years of declining health Cotton passed away peacefully on November 10th.

She was preceded in death by her father, Roy, her mother Edna, brothers Bill, Ray, and Wayne, her sister Edna June and her husband Pete.

She leaves behind her son Jesse Grammer and his wife Vickie of Bayside, her son Bill Grammer of Redding, her grandson Will Grammer and his three children of Astoria Oregon, her grandson Timothy Grammer of Central Point, Oregon and her granddaughter Miranda Grammer and her three children of Medford, Oregon, and also a brother, three sisters, and a great number of nieces and nephews.

Cotton was loved by all of them, and will be greatly missed.

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