David Cotter Rainey Jr. ’63

David Cotter Rainey Jr. ’63 of Allentown, Pennsylvania, died November 14, 2009, at Lehigh Valley Hospital in Salisbury Township after a three-year battle with cancer. Cotter was born in Wheeling, West Virginia, and left Dartmouth in 1962 to attend Ashland University in Ohio, where he graduated in 1965 with a B.S. in business administration. Cotter spent three and half years in the Navy and served in Vietnam. He worked for several companies before joining the marketing department at Caloric Corp., the appliance maker, in Topton, Pennsylvania. Cotter was a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Allentown. He is survived by his wife of 33 years, Judy; children Lisa, Scott, David and Jamey; brother Arthur; sister Ann; and grandchildren Eleanor, Alex, Mary and Grace. 


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