Services for James Curtis Cothren, of Meadville, were 11 a.m.today, Jan. 12, at Franklin Funeral Home Chapel in Meadville withburial in Middleton Creek Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery.

Mr. Cothren, 60, died Jan. 10, 2007, at G.V. “Sonny” MontgomeryVA Medical Center in Jackson. He was born in Centreville on Nov.12, 1946, to Percy R. Cothren Sr. and Hazel Anders Cothren.

He worked with the U.S. Forest Service and with Franklin County.He was a U.S. Army veteran of the Vietnam War.

Preceding him in death were his father; a brother, Percy R.Cothren Jr.; and a sister, Brenda C. Smith.

Survivors are his mother, Hazel Anders Cothren, of Meadville;his brother, Alan Cothren, of Meadville; his sisters, OlveyFreeman, of Meadville, and Sherry Cothren, of Madison; and his manynieces and nephews.