Donald Gene (Cotton) Strickland, of Cape Canaveral and formerly of Plant City, died Oct. 2, 2014
Born in Cotton, Georgia, April 2, 1948, he was the son of the late A.C. and Rosa Strickland.
He served in the U.S. Army from 1967 to 1969 and was a veteran of the Vietnam War. After leaving the Army, he began working as a boilermaker with the Local 433 Union. He worked with them for 40 years, until his retirement in 2010. He was an avid fisherman all his life.
He was preceded in death by parents, A.C. and Rosa Strickland; brothers, Jerome and Noble Strickland; and sister, Daphne Strickland Hall.
He is survived by his second wife, Layne Strickland; children, Donald (Donnie) Strickland and DeLisa Strickland LeBoeuf; grandchildren, Julia Strickland, Molly LeBoeuf and Logan LeBoeuf; and siblings, William Morris Strickland, Rena Strickland Barfield, Patricia Strickland Hitson, Phyllis Strickland Brooks, Jeanette Strickland Morey and Leugenia Strickland Deshazo.
A private family memorial was held Oct. 11.