Anne Cotton was born on June 19, 1933, in Columbus, Ohio; she grew up in Chicago, Illinois.  After attending several grade schools, she graduated from Northfield (Mass.) School for Girls in 1951.  She received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Smith College in 1955.  She then held an interesting collection of jobs, from a year as a translator with the National Security Agency in Washington, D.C.; another year with Doubleday Publishing Company in New York, followed by five years as a secretary with the Metropolitan Opera.  She went on tour with the company for four of those years, occasionally appearing onstage (in non-singing roles).  Ms. Cotton then moved to Cambridge, Mass., where she spent twenty-five years at Harvard University, five as Student Insurance Officer at the Health Center, and twenty as Assistant Registrar and Registrar at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.  In 1972, she received a Master of Education degree, and in 1982, a Doctor of Education, both from Harvard.  In 1987, she moved to South Hadley, Mass., spending eleven years as Registrar at Mount Holyoke College.  The best part of this job was the "Faculty Show" that the faculty put on every four years for the students; Ms. Cotton appeared in four of the shows, wrote some of each, and produced the last show staged while she worked at the college.  In 1998, she retired to her first real home and a life of volunteer work.  This included pet therapy visits with her dogs at a nursing home, a hospital, and a day-care center for developmentally handicapped adults.  A dog owner for most of her life, she discovered Flat-Coated Retrievers in 1990, and was owned by them from then on.  After retirement, she served for ten years as Treasurer of the regional dog-breed club, eleven years as President of the New England Wodehouse Thingummy Society (NEWTS), and Treasurer, co-chair, and occasional author for the Clients of Adrian Mulliner, a group for those interested in both P. G. Wodehouse and Sherlock Holmes.  She also wrote a regular column in each issue of the newsletter of the Northeast Flat-Coated Retriever Club for many years, and sang in the Episcopal church choir in South Hadley.  In her later years, Anne moved to the Applewood independent living retirement community in Amherst, MA, then to Assisted Living at Loomis Village in South Hadley, MA, and finally to The Gardens memory care unit at Rockridge Retirement Community in Northampton, MA.  After falling and breaking a hip, Anne was moved to a nursing facility where she was kept comfortable until she died peacefully the evening of Saturday 28 July 2018. Anne is survived by four nieces and nephews, all children of her sister Jane, who died in 2011: Peter Kingsley, Anne Musgrove, Jim Kingsley, and Beth Kingsley.  A funeral service will be held 11:30 a.m. Saturday, September 1, 2018 at All Saints Episcopal Church in South Hadley. A reception will follow the service and interment. In lieu of flowers, Anne requested that contributions be made to the American Cancer Society.