Obit for BUTENHOFF, Edwin H. (b.1904), Clay Co., MN

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EDWIN H. BUTENHOFF OBIT, #673T

Name and date of newspaper unknown



BUTENHOFF RITES HELD AT SABIN CHURCH MONDAY

Funeral services were held Monday in Trinity Lutheran Church at Sabin for 

Edwin H. Butenhoff, 58, who died unexpectedly at his farm home. He had 

been under medical treatment for a heart ailment for several years.



The Rev. I. W. Bade officiated.



Mrs. Ralph Rehder was the soloist and Mrs. Bade was the organist.



Active pallbearers were six nephews, Orval Butenhoff of Hampton, Iowa; 

LeRoy Jackson of Fargo; Ronald Jackson of Moorhead; Floyd, Melvin and 

Theodore Butenhoff.



Honorary pallbearers were Anton Krebs, Robert Cook, Eugene Swenson, Fred 

Miller, Rudy and William Possehl.



Interment was in Trinity Cemetery.



Arrangements were made by Dobmeier Funeral Home.



The son of Albert and Emma Butenhoff, Edwin was born Feb. 5, 1904, on his 

father's farm near baker. He attended school at Baker, grew to manhood 

and lived his entire life in this area.



He was baptised and confirmed in the Trinity Lutheran Church at Sabin and 

at the present time was an elder in the church.



On March 31, 1931, he married Violet Jackson of Barnesville. The couple 

had farmed in the Baker community all their married life.



Besides his wife, he is survived by three sons, Curtis, Edward and 

Ronald, all of rural Barnesville; two daughters, Mrs. Alvin (Fern) Hansen 

of Baker and Mrs. Howard (Janet) Brown of Minot, N. D.  There are 10 

grandchildren.



Other survivors include six brothers and one sister: Fred of Hampton, 

Iowa; Mrs. Irving (Evelyn) Sether of Rothsay; Theodore, Clarence, 

Leonard, Albert and William, all of the Sabin-Baker area.



He was preceded in death by his parents, two brothers and one sister.

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