Nansemond County-Portsmouth City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Butler, John H., 1945 

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JOHN HENRY BUTLER

   Suffolk, April 12 - Last rites for John Henry Butler were conducted at 3 
o’clock yesterday afternoon at the Holland Baptist Church by Rev. H.L. Foster 
and Dr. W.B. O’Neill.

   Miss Nancy Eley, accompanied by Mrs. Clifton Holland, sang, "Sunrise" and 
Miss Eley and Mrs. F.L. Wright sang, "No Disappointment in Heaven."  A Quartet 
composed of Miss Eley, Mrs. Wright, W.W. Darden and G.D. Underwood, sang, 
"Good Night and Good Morning."

   The casket was covered with a pall of pink and white carnations, pink roses 
and baby’s breath.  Active pallbearers were Rufus Copeland, V.V. Butler, 
George Aston, L.L. Butler, W.H. Braswell, R.C. Griffin, D.R. Copeland and 
Beverly Aston.  Burial was in the Copeland family cemetery near Buckhorn.


John Henry BUTLER, grocer, 
Nansemond Co. native, d. 8 Apr 1945, at home, Portsmouth, age 62, 
interred in the COPELAND family cemetery*, near Buckhorn, 11 Apr 1945, 
donated obit, newspaper unknown 

*He shares a gravestone with his brother Thomas W. BUTLER (1890-1928). 
   Their parents & paternal grandparents are also buried there. 
   Nansemond Co. Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 1 (I-18-19 & -25), 
   another extension of the SCHS Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/nanvol1.txt 

Find a Grave Mem. #101218602. 


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