Butler, Walter Thomas - Funeral services were held Monday afternoon at 2 p.m. at the Arnold Funeral Home for Walter Thomas Butler, 81 who passed away Saturday at the Armstrong Nursing Home in Bedford. Rev. Myron Hayes of the Creston Methodist church officiated, with interment in Fairview cemetery. Music was furnished by Rolland Buxton with Mrs. Norma Paymal at the piano. Pallbearers were Hal Dean, Kenneth and Robert Morris, Darrell Reynolds, Jack Butler and Joe Elliott.
Obituary
Walter Thomas Butler, and his twin brother Edwin were the youngest of a family of four girls and four boys born to Thomas and Rachael Butler on Aug. 11, 1869 in Platte township, Union county, and died Jan. 13, 1951 at the age of 81 years, 5 months and 2 days at Armstrong Nursing Home, Bedford, Iowa.
As a child he united with the Presbyterian Prairie Star church. As he moved he took his church letter with him to Lenox, back to Prairie Star, later to the Methodist Church in Creston where his membership remained at the time of his death.
On October 3, 1894 he was married to Nellie Roberts and settled on the Butler homestead, Platte township, Union county. To their union while they were in Platte township were born 3 children: Bernice, Helen, and Edwin. Bernice Bush who preceded him in death Feb. 16, 1925, Mrs. Claude (Helen) Morris and Edwin, both now reside on farms near Lenox.
In the year 1906 he sold the homestead and moved to Lenox, residing there one year while preparing the newly improved farm east of Lenox where he moved June 1907, and remained there until 1919 when he moved to Platte township, Union county on the farm his son now occupies. He left this farm in 1922 to a residence close where he was a great help to his son on stock shares with him until he deemed it best to get away from so much hard work and in the summer of 1926 he built a new house on Myrtle Street in Creston where he and his wife spent many happy years together. At this place they celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. On May 22, 1938 his beloved wife departed this life. At this time Walter broke up the home and made his home with his son and daughter until September 1950 when his health failed making in necessary to be taken to the Armstrong Nursing Home where he remained until the time of his death.
He was the last of his family, his twin preceded him in death Aug, 1872, Also his sisters, Rachel L. Butler, Ann Jean Hewitt, Mary Robinson and Lizzie Butler, and brothers William and John preceded him in death.
He leaves to mourn his death, his daughter Helen and husband Claude, his son Edwin and wife Hazel, five grandchildren, Kenneth, Hal Dean and Robert Morris, Marjorie Reynolds and Jack Butler, four great grandchildren and a host of other relatives and friends.
He was a most loving father and good provider, a good man whose deeds will long be remembered.
Lenox Time Table, Lenox, Iowa Thursday January 18, 1951
Obituary
Walter Thomas Butler, and his twin brother Edwin were the youngest of a family of four girls and four boys born to Thomas and Rachael Butler on Aug. 11, 1869 in Platte township, Union county, and died Jan. 13, 1951 at the age of 81 years, 5 months and 2 days at Armstrong Nursing Home, Bedford, Iowa.
As a child he united with the Presbyterian Prairie Star church. As he moved he took his church letter with him to Lenox, back to Prairie Star, later to the Methodist Church in Creston where his membership remained at the time of his death.
On October 3, 1894 he was married to Nellie Roberts and settled on the Butler homestead, Platte township, Union county. To their union while they were in Platte township were born 3 children: Bernice, Helen, and Edwin. Bernice Bush who preceded him in death Feb. 16, 1925, Mrs. Claude (Helen) Morris and Edwin, both now reside on farms near Lenox.
In the year 1906 he sold the homestead and moved to Lenox, residing there one year while preparing the newly improved farm east of Lenox where he moved June 1907, and remained there until 1919 when he moved to Platte township, Union county on the farm his son now occupies. He left this farm in 1922 to a residence close where he was a great help to his son on stock shares with him until he deemed it best to get away from so much hard work and in the summer of 1926 he built a new house on Myrtle Street in Creston where he and his wife spent many happy years together. At this place they celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. On May 22, 1938 his beloved wife departed this life. At this time Walter broke up the home and made his home with his son and daughter until September 1950 when his health failed making in necessary to be taken to the Armstrong Nursing Home where he remained until the time of his death.
He was the last of his family, his twin preceded him in death Aug, 1872, Also his sisters, Rachel L. Butler, Ann Jean Hewitt, Mary Robinson and Lizzie Butler, and brothers William and John preceded him in death.
He leaves to mourn his death, his daughter Helen and husband Claude, his son Edwin and wife Hazel, five grandchildren, Kenneth, Hal Dean and Robert Morris, Marjorie Reynolds and Jack Butler, four great grandchildren and a host of other relatives and friends.
He was a most loving father and good provider, a good man whose deeds will long be remembered.
Lenox Time Table, Lenox, Iowa Thursday January 18, 1951
Butler, Walter Thomas - Funeral services were held Monday afternoon at 2 p.m. at the Arnold Funeral Home for Walter Thomas Butler, 81 who passed away Saturday at the Armstrong Nursing Home in Bedford. Rev. Myron Hayes of the Creston Methodist church officiated, with interment in Fairview cemetery. Music was furnished by Rolland Buxton with Mrs. Norma Paymal at the piano. Pallbearers were Hal Dean, Kenneth and Robert Morris, Darrell Reynolds, Jack Butler and Joe Elliott.
Obituary
Walter Thomas Butler, and his twin brother Edwin were the youngest of a family of four girls and four boys born to Thomas and Rachael Butler on Aug. 11, 1869 in Platte township, Union county, and died Jan. 13, 1951 at the age of 81 years, 5 months and 2 days at Armstrong Nursing Home, Bedford, Iowa.
As a child he united with the Presbyterian Prairie Star church. As he moved he took his church letter with him to Lenox, back to Prairie Star, later to the Methodist Church in Creston where his membership remained at the time of his death.
On October 3, 1894 he was married to Nellie Roberts and settled on the Butler homestead, Platte township, Union county. To their union while they were in Platte township were born 3 children: Bernice, Helen, and Edwin. Bernice Bush who preceded him in death Feb. 16, 1925, Mrs. Claude (Helen) Morris and Edwin, both now reside on farms near Lenox.
In the year 1906 he sold the homestead and moved to Lenox, residing there one year while preparing the newly improved farm east of Lenox where he moved June 1907, and remained there until 1919 when he moved to Platte township, Union county on the farm his son now occupies. He left this farm in 1922 to a residence close where he was a great help to his son on stock shares with him until he deemed it best to get away from so much hard work and in the summer of 1926 he built a new house on Myrtle Street in Creston where he and his wife spent many happy years together. At this place they celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. On May 22, 1938 his beloved wife departed this life. At this time Walter broke up the home and made his home with his son and daughter until September 1950 when his health failed making in necessary to be taken to the Armstrong Nursing Home where he remained until the time of his death.
He was the last of his family, his twin preceded him in death Aug, 1872, Also his sisters, Rachel L. Butler, Ann Jean Hewitt, Mary Robinson and Lizzie Butler, and brothers William and John preceded him in death.
He leaves to mourn his death, his daughter Helen and husband Claude, his son Edwin and wife Hazel, five grandchildren, Kenneth, Hal Dean and Robert Morris, Marjorie Reynolds and Jack Butler, four great grandchildren and a host of other relatives and friends.
He was a most loving father and good provider, a good man whose deeds will long be remembered.
Lenox Time Table, Lenox, Iowa Thursday January 18, 1951
Obituary
Walter Thomas Butler, and his twin brother Edwin were the youngest of a family of four girls and four boys born to Thomas and Rachael Butler on Aug. 11, 1869 in Platte township, Union county, and died Jan. 13, 1951 at the age of 81 years, 5 months and 2 days at Armstrong Nursing Home, Bedford, Iowa.
As a child he united with the Presbyterian Prairie Star church. As he moved he took his church letter with him to Lenox, back to Prairie Star, later to the Methodist Church in Creston where his membership remained at the time of his death.
On October 3, 1894 he was married to Nellie Roberts and settled on the Butler homestead, Platte township, Union county. To their union while they were in Platte township were born 3 children: Bernice, Helen, and Edwin. Bernice Bush who preceded him in death Feb. 16, 1925, Mrs. Claude (Helen) Morris and Edwin, both now reside on farms near Lenox.
In the year 1906 he sold the homestead and moved to Lenox, residing there one year while preparing the newly improved farm east of Lenox where he moved June 1907, and remained there until 1919 when he moved to Platte township, Union county on the farm his son now occupies. He left this farm in 1922 to a residence close where he was a great help to his son on stock shares with him until he deemed it best to get away from so much hard work and in the summer of 1926 he built a new house on Myrtle Street in Creston where he and his wife spent many happy years together. At this place they celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. On May 22, 1938 his beloved wife departed this life. At this time Walter broke up the home and made his home with his son and daughter until September 1950 when his health failed making in necessary to be taken to the Armstrong Nursing Home where he remained until the time of his death.
He was the last of his family, his twin preceded him in death Aug, 1872, Also his sisters, Rachel L. Butler, Ann Jean Hewitt, Mary Robinson and Lizzie Butler, and brothers William and John preceded him in death.
He leaves to mourn his death, his daughter Helen and husband Claude, his son Edwin and wife Hazel, five grandchildren, Kenneth, Hal Dean and Robert Morris, Marjorie Reynolds and Jack Butler, four great grandchildren and a host of other relatives and friends.
He was a most loving father and good provider, a good man whose deeds will long be remembered.
Lenox Time Table, Lenox, Iowa Thursday January 18, 1951
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