Mitchell County GaArchives Obituaries.....Butler, Arkie Bennett 1955
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The Camilla Enterprise 30 Sep 1955 page 6 Camilla Ga.
  Camilla lost one of its pioneer women residents when Mrs. Hardy Pendleton 
Butler, Sr. died at the age of 79 Monday morning at Mitchell County Hospital 
where she had spent the past few weeks in critical condition following a 
stroke.  Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the 
residence with Rev. Louis Spivey, pastor of Camilla Methodist Church, 
officiating and being assisted by Rev. N. H. Williams.  Interment followed in 
Oakview Cemetery by the side of her husband who had died back in 1916.  Serving 
as pallbearers were Bill Bennett, Alvin Wight of Cairo, W. B. Wight of Albany, 
Dr. Clyde Stevenson, Jr., Bennett Lewis, Edwin Rackley, Sr.  Bramlett Funeral 
Home of Camilla was in charge of arrangements.  Mrs. Butler, the former Miss 
Arkie Bennett, had spent her entire life in Mitchell County.  She was born 
seventy-nine years ago, the daughter of the late W. L. Bennett and Parmelia 
Adams Bennett, on the old Bennett home place near town where Mr. and Mrs. Dan 
Palmer, Jr. now farm and make their home.  After her marriage to Mr. Butler she 
went to live on the Butler place near town on the Hopeful road and continued to 
live there and raise her family of children after his death many years ago.  
She was a lifelong member of Camilla Methodist Church and was one of its most 
devoted members until infirmities of old age kept her from taking any active 
part in the life of the community.  She is survived by three daughters, Mrs. 
Eloise B. McDonald of Camilla, Miss Gussie Butler of Camilla and Ft. Gaines, 
Ga., Mrs. C. E. Byrd of Darlington, S. C.; three sons, Robert Butler of 
Camilla, H. P. Butler, Jr. of Headland, Ala., and Bennett Butler of High 
Springs, Fla.; four grandchildren, Butler McDonald of Camilla, Miss Betty Byrd 
of Darlington, S. C., Ann Pendleton Butler of Headland, Ala., and Jimmy Butler 
of High Springs, Fla.  Also surviving is one sister-in-law, Mrs. T. R. Bennett 
of Atlanta.


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