Funeral services for Fern A. Cottrell, age 83 of Chariton, will be Wednesday, September 5, at 10:30 am at Pierschbacher Funeral Home in Chariton. Family will receive friends prior to the service beginning at 9 am at the funeral home. Burial will be at the Russell Cemetery. Memorials may be made to Legacy Lodge Hospice House, Parents of Galactosemic Children, or the Susie Tuttle Dialysis Unit in Corydon.