OBIT: William BUTLER, 1946, Somerset, Somerset County, PA

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WILLIAM BUTLER

  William Butler, passed away Thursday morning December 5, in the Somerset State 
Hospital, after a lingering illness of several weeks.
  Born in Treorky, Wales, 70 years ago, Mr. Butler married Margaret Ellen Lewis 
and came to this country in 1913.  He was employed as a weighmaster for the 
Keystone Coal Co., until 15 years ago, when he left Meyersdale to become head 
nightman in the Somerset County Hospital, now a State hospital.
  From 1913 to 1931 Mr. Butler was choir director of the Meyersdale Methodist 
Church, and is reputed to have had the best bass voice Meyersdale has ever 
known.  He was always willing and able to serve the public with his musical 
talents.
  He is survived by two sons, Idris, of California, and Terrance, Pittsburgh, 
and his wife, who has made her home with Terrance in Pittsburgh, since the 
illness of her husband.
  Funeral arrangements are incomplete, but the rites will be conducted in the 
Price Funeral Home, by Rev. H. F. Gotjen.  Interment will be in Union Cemetery 
under the direction of W. C. Price & Son.

Meyersdale Republican, December 6, 1946