Grady County GaArchives Obituaries.....Butler, Ira January 27 1944
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The Cairo Messenger, Friday, February 4, 1944
Mr. Ira Butler, 66, a well-known Grady countian, died in a sanitarium at 
Milledgeville at 6:32 p.m. Thursday of last week, Jan. 27th, as a result of a 
cerebral hemorrhage.  He had been ill two years.   His death brought sadness to 
many relatives and friends.

Final rites were at the grave side at Butler cemetery, in the southern part of 
this county at 3 p.m. Monday, with Rev. Wilburn S. Smith, pastor of the First 
Baptist Church and South Georgia Funeral Home in charge.  Pallbearers were P. 
M. Baggett, James Darsey, Thomas Fewell, T. O. Miller, M. J. Pearce and Ebb 
Willis.

Mr. Butler was born in what is now Grady county on April 24th, 1877, and spent 
his life here, engaged as a farmer.  He was a member of the First Baptist 
Church here.

Immediate survivors include his widow, Mrs. Ira Butler, Tampa; four sons, Edwin 
Butler, Charlotte, N.C., William A. Butler, Richmond, Va., and John P. and Paul 
D. Butler, U. S. Army; three daughters, Mrs. Mildred Wheatley, Mrs. Mary Alice 
Sappington and Miss Louise Butler, Tampa; three sisters, Mrs. Pearl Woodward, 
Wabasso, Fla.; Mrs. Remus Pickren, Pahokee, Fla., and Mrs. E. L. Maxwell, 
Calvary; and four grandchildren. 

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