Grady County GaArchives Obituaries.....Robert Louis Butler January 4 1978
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The Cairo Messenger, January 13, 1978
Cairo Native Dies at 84
Robert Louis Butler has final rites on January 7th

Mr. Robert Louis Butler, 84 years of age, passed away at Archbold Memorial 
Hospital in Thomasville on January 5, 1978.  Funeral services were held on 
Saturday, January 7, 1978 at 2 p.m. at the Piedmont Primitive Baptist Church of 
Calvary with Elder Ted Folmar and Elder O. V. Marshall officiating, interment 
in the Piedmont Cemetery.  Active pallbearers were grandsons: Louis Butler, 
James Butler, Judd Butler, Joye Butler, George Hunter, Randy Hersey, Robert 
Butler and Terry Hunter.  Honorary pallbearers were members of the Primitive 
Baptist Churches in the Flint River Association serving as honorary escort.

Mr. Butler was born in Grady County on October 7, 1893 to the late Henry Moore 
and Andelia Trulock Butler and was married to the former Miss Pearl Lee on 
January 4, 1923 who survives.  Mr. Butler spent a lifetime in this area, he 
moved from Grady County in 1937 to Quincy where he farmed until his return to 
this county in 1951.  He was a retired farmer and a member of the Piedmont 
Primitive Baptist Church.

Mr. Butler's survivors, in addition to his wife, his children, Raber Butler, 
Ermon Butler, both of Calvary, H. M. Butler, and Joe M. Butler, Quincy, Fla., 
C. Bob Butler, Tallahassee, Fla., Virgil Butler, Gretna, Fla., Mrs. Clarence 
Simon, West Minester, Calif., Mrs. George Hunter of Lake City, Fla., Mrs. 
Charlie Hersey, Orlando, Fla., and Mrs. Harold Genton of Washington C. H., 
Ohio; 1 brother, Paul Butler, Havana, Fla., 7 sisters, Mrs. Ruby Thomas of 
Huntsville, Ala., Mrs. Alice Carr, Mrs. Emmie McCall, Mrs. Lula Davis, all of 
Gainesville, Fla., Mrs. Janie Cox, Mrs. Sallie McBride, both of Orlando, Fla., 
and Mrs. Eldice Jones, Lake Placid, Fla.; 3 grandchildren and 5 great 
grandchildren.

Clark Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.  

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