Obituary from the Shreveport Times newspaper, April 12, 1970, Sunday, p. 18-A:

Funeral services for Lt. Col. Robert P. Butler (USAF, Ret.), 48, of 3517 Redbud Lane, will be held at 2:30 p.m. today at the Rose-Neath Funeral Home chapel with the Rev. M. David Relder, pastor of Morningside Methodist Church, officiating.

Burial will be in Forest Park Cemetery.

He died at 2:05 a.m. Friday in Wilford Hall Hospital, San Antonio, Tex., after a long illness.

A native of Wister, Okla., he had been a Shreveport resident about nine years, was a B-52 commander and retired at Barksdale AFB after 26 years in the military service.

He was a member of the Morningside Methodist Church and the Morningside Masonic Lodge.

Survivors include one son, Robert N. Butler of Shreveport; three daughters, Mrs. Susan Gordon of Ruston, Mrs. Sandra Comeaux of Welsh and Mrs. Barbara Kelly of Grand Forks AFB, N.D.; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Butler of Oak Grove; four sisters, Mrs. Isola Wright and Mrs. Eunice Scarborough, both of Monroe, Mrs. Thelma Chatman of Oak Grove and Mrs. Mary Miller of North Little Rock, Ark.; five brothers, Lester Butler of Monroe, Neil Butler of Houston, Tex., Herman Butler of Brookhaven, Miss., and James Butler and John Butler, both of Richardson, Tex.

Pallbearers will be Welman Chatman, Howard Miller, Warrington Wright, Col. W. L. Leatherwood, Daniel Cox and Tracy Little Sr.

Memorials may be sent to the Leukemia Research Foundation.

Obituary from the Shreveport Times newspaper, April 12, 1970, Sunday, p. 18-A:

Funeral services for Lt. Col. Robert P. Butler (USAF, Ret.), 48, of 3517 Redbud Lane, will be held at 2:30 p.m. today at the Rose-Neath Funeral Home chapel with the Rev. M. David Relder, pastor of Morningside Methodist Church, officiating.

Burial will be in Forest Park Cemetery.

He died at 2:05 a.m. Friday in Wilford Hall Hospital, San Antonio, Tex., after a long illness.

A native of Wister, Okla., he had been a Shreveport resident about nine years, was a B-52 commander and retired at Barksdale AFB after 26 years in the military service.

He was a member of the Morningside Methodist Church and the Morningside Masonic Lodge.

Survivors include one son, Robert N. Butler of Shreveport; three daughters, Mrs. Susan Gordon of Ruston, Mrs. Sandra Comeaux of Welsh and Mrs. Barbara Kelly of Grand Forks AFB, N.D.; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Butler of Oak Grove; four sisters, Mrs. Isola Wright and Mrs. Eunice Scarborough, both of Monroe, Mrs. Thelma Chatman of Oak Grove and Mrs. Mary Miller of North Little Rock, Ark.; five brothers, Lester Butler of Monroe, Neil Butler of Houston, Tex., Herman Butler of Brookhaven, Miss., and James Butler and John Butler, both of Richardson, Tex.

Pallbearers will be Welman Chatman, Howard Miller, Warrington Wright, Col. W. L. Leatherwood, Daniel Cox and Tracy Little Sr.

Memorials may be sent to the Leukemia Research Foundation.