UPSON COUNTY  GA  Obits Mr. Walter B. Butts

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Mr. Walter B. Butts
Funeral services will be conducted for Mr. Walter B.
Butts, 85, of 1258 Pickard Road Thursday, May, 7,
1987 at 11 a.m. at the chapel of Pasley-Fletcher
Funeral Home.  Mr. Butts died late Tuesday
afternoon, May 5, at his residence.

Elder Pat Denton, Licentiate Billy Harris and Elder
Roswell Smith will officiate.  Interment will be
held in Friendship Primitive Baptist Church
Cemetery.   Pasley-Fletcher Funeral Home is in
charge of arrangements.

Mr. Butts was a native of Upson County.   He was a
retired farmer and peach grower, a former secretary
and treasurer of the Flint River Production Credit
Association, retired rural mail carrier with 44
years service, honored as the first “citizen of the
month” by the Thurston Community Club, a member of
the Board of Trustees for consolidation of the
Thurston Community Schools.  Mr. Butts was a deacon
of Friendship Primitive Baptist Church, which he
joined on June 6, 1931, a charter director and
incorporator of the Upson County Electric Membership
Corporation.

He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Julia Abernathy
Butts of Thomaston:  two daughters, Mrs. W. T. (Ann)
Ellerbee Jr., and Mrs. Jane Butts Green, both of
Thomaston, two sons:  Ray of Atlanta and Jimmy both
of Thomaston.  Eight grandchildren and eight great
grandchildren also survive.







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