Isle of Wight County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Butler, Leonard W., 1945 

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Services Sunday For L. W. Butler 

  SUFFOLK, Aug. 11. (AP) - Funeral services for Leonard W. Butler will be 
conducted at 1 p.m. Sunday at the I.O. Hill and Co. Funeral Home by Dr. A.L. 
Franklin, pastor of the Main Street Methodist Church. 

  Burial will be in the Antioch Christian Church Cemetery. 

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LEONARD WILTON BUTLER

   Suffolk, Aug. 14 - Funeral services for Leonard Wilton Butler were 
conducted at 3 p.m. Sunday at the I.O. Hill Funeral Home by Dr. A.L. Franklin, 
pastor of the Main Street Methodist Church.

   The casket was covered with a pall of pink roses and pink and white asters. 
Mrs. Catherine Powell Gayle, accompanied by Mrs. J.E. Goodwin, sang, "Softly 
and Tenderly Jesus Is Calling" and "Lead Kindly Light."

   Active pallbearers were Marshall Bowden, J.W. Ward, E.T. Pope, H.L. White, 
Clarence Bradshaw and Edward Worrell.  Honorary were friends of the family. 
Burial was in the Antioch Christian Church Cemetery. 


Leonard Wilton BUTLER, carpenter, 
b. 13 Jul 1895, Isle of Wight Co., d. 9 Aug 1945, Newport News, 
interred in Antioch Christian Church Cemetery*, near Windsor, 12 Aug 1945, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 30, No. 329, Sat., Aug. 11, 1945, p. 8; 
donated obit, publication unknown 

*Additional information: 

Antioch list, an extension of the Southampton County Historical Society 
   {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/cemeteries/antioch.txt 

Unmarked?  Not on: 
   Isle of Wight County Historical Society {IWCHS} 
   Grave Site Survey Task Force {GSSTF} report #20: 
   http://www.iwchs.com/Cemetery-Reports.html 

His parents, "Frank" Franklin & "Bettie" Elizabeth (POWELL CROCKER) BUTLER, 
   are also buried there, unmarked. 

D.Cert. 16249 (N.News #417) gives son of Eliz. (McPHERSON) BUTLER; 
   body removed to Suffolk 10 Aug 1945 [undertaker illegible]. 

Find a Grave Memorial #228436374 gives buried in Windsor Cemetery.  [no photo] 
   Not on IWCHS GSSTF report #26, either. 


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