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SSGT Floyd William Butts

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SSGT Floyd William Butts

Birth
West Virginia, USA
Death
3 Jul 1944 (aged 27)
France
Burial
Cherry Run, Morgan County, West Virginia, USA Add to Map
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S/SGT. FLOYD W. BUTTS, of Cherry Run , W. Va., who was employed prior to the war at the Key Chevrolet Sales here and resided in Frederick, was killed in action on July 3. He was a nephew of Mrs. Walter K. May, 605 West Patrick street, and Homer J. Harvey, 241 North Market street, and the son of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Butts, of Cherry Run.

S/Sgt. Butts, who was with a glider unit, entered service in 1942. As a boy he attended North Market street school and, after returning to Cherry Run for some years, he came back to Frederick and was employed by the Chevrolet firm while living with Mrs. May for some time before he entered the Army. Aged 27, he was a member of the United Brethren church here.

Besides his parents, he is survived by three sisters, Dorothy, Bernadine and Elizabeth, and three brothers, Stanley and Howard of West Virginia, and Pfc. Marlin Butts, San Antonio, Tex.

Published in The Frederick News on August 4, 1944
S/SGT. FLOYD W. BUTTS, of Cherry Run , W. Va., who was employed prior to the war at the Key Chevrolet Sales here and resided in Frederick, was killed in action on July 3. He was a nephew of Mrs. Walter K. May, 605 West Patrick street, and Homer J. Harvey, 241 North Market street, and the son of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Butts, of Cherry Run.

S/Sgt. Butts, who was with a glider unit, entered service in 1942. As a boy he attended North Market street school and, after returning to Cherry Run for some years, he came back to Frederick and was employed by the Chevrolet firm while living with Mrs. May for some time before he entered the Army. Aged 27, he was a member of the United Brethren church here.

Besides his parents, he is survived by three sisters, Dorothy, Bernadine and Elizabeth, and three brothers, Stanley and Howard of West Virginia, and Pfc. Marlin Butts, San Antonio, Tex.

Published in The Frederick News on August 4, 1944


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