1941–2019

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Born: Jan­ua­ry 18, 1941, Ham­il­ton, On­tar­io, Ca­na­da.

Died: Au­gust 31, 2019, Roy­al Uni­ver­si­ty Hos­pi­tal, Sas­ka­toon, Sas­kat­che­wan, Ca­na­da.

Buried: Lash­burn Ce­me­te­ry, Lash­burn, Sas­kat­che­wan, Ca­na­da.

Biography

Robert was the son of Ed­ward Cott­rill.

He at­tend­ed On­tar­io Bi­ble Col­lege, the Uni­ver­si­ty of Wind­sor, and Bri­er­crest Bib­li­cal Se­mi­na­ry.

He served pas­tor­ates in On­tar­io, with the As­so­ci­at­ed Gos­pel Church­es of Ca­na­da for 17 years, and taught Bi­ble, mu­sic and oth­er sub­jects in the col­lege class­room in west­ern Ca­na­da.

A long time stu­dent of hym­no­lo­gy, he con­trib­ut­ed a con­sid­er­able amount of back­ground in­for­ma­tion for the Cyb­er Hym­nal™. Pri­or to his death, he was liv­ing in Sas­kat­che­wan, Can­ada.

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