Surry-Sussex County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Butler, Frederick W. Jr., 1970 

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FREDERICK WAYNE BUTLER, JR. 

WAKEFIELD YOUTH DIES AT REUNION 

  WAKEFIELD - Two year old Frederick Wayne Butler of Wakefield drowned 
Saturday night when he wandered away from his parents at a family reunion 
and fell into a cesspool. 

  The accident occurred about 7 p.m. at the Littleton Hunt Club on Rt. 35 
near Wakefield. 

  Sussex County police reported the child was not missed until those at 
the reunion sat down to eat.  Upon making a search, his body was found in 
a cesspool and members of the Waverly Rescue Crew were called to the scene. 
After working more than an hour and a half, the emergency crew was unable 
to revive the child. 

  Surviving are his parents Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Wayne Butler Sr.; and 
three sisters, Pamela, Lisa and Ginger Butler, all of Wakefield; material 
grandmother, Mrs. Louise w. Freeman of Petersburg, his paternal grandmother, 
Mrs. Violet M. Goodrich of Wakefield; a maternal great-grandmother, Mrs. 
Ruth B. Munford, Wakefield and a paternal great-grandmother, Mrs. Jennie K. 
Borrell, Reading, Pa. 

  Funeral services will be held today at 2:30 p.m. at the Purviance Funeral 
Home with burial in the Rocky Hock Methodist Church cemetery in Surry County. 

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FREDERICK WAYNE BUTLER, JR. 

2-YEAR OLD FALLS INTO TANK, DIES 

  WAKEFIELD - Frederick Wayne Butler, 2, son of Frederick Wayne and Mrs. 
Margaret Freeman Butler of Wakefield, drowned in a septic tank early Saturday 
night at the Littleton Hunt Club about 12 miles southwest of here, Dr. M.S. 
Rosenberg, Sussex County medical examiner, reported. 

  The septic tank been broken by a vehicle driven over it.  No details were 
available. 

  He was born in Sussex County. 

  Besides his parents, surviving are three sisters, Pamela Butler, Lisa 
Butler, and Ginger Butler of Wakefield; maternal grandmother, Mrs. Louise W. 
Freeman of Petersburg; paternal grandmother, Mrs. Violet M. Goodrich of 
Wakefield; maternal great-grandmother, Mrs. Ruth B. Munford of Wakefield; and 
paternal great-grandmother, Mrs. Jennie K. Borrell of Reading, Pa. 

  A funeral service will be held today at 2:30 p.m. in Purviance Funeral 
Chapel by the Rev. W.L. Alford and the Rev. Robert L. Consolvo.  Burial will 
be in Rocky Hock Methodist Church Cemetery, Surry County.  The family will be 
at the John W. Goodrich home near Wakefield. 


Frederick Wayne BUTLER, Jr., son of "Fred" W. & Margaret L. (FREEMAN) BUTLER, 
b. 19 Nov 1967, Petersburg, drowned 28 Mar 1970, Littleton Hunt Club, 
interred in Rocky Hock Methodist Church Cemetery (Plot 88A*), Surry Co., 
   30 Mar 1970, 
"Progress-Index" (Petersburg, VA), Mar. 30, 1970, p. 3; 
donated obit, publication unknown, Mar. 30, 1970 

*Rocky Hock list, an extension of the 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/surry/cemeteries/rockyhk.txt 

His parents are buried in the same plot. 

A photo of his gravestone is posted with Find a Grave Memorial #20638132. 

His father's obit ("Daily Press," Feb. 20, 2007, p. C-3) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/surry/obits/b346f4ob.txt 

His mother's obit ("Surry-Sussex Dispatch," July 27, 2011, p. 8) 
   is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/surry/obits/b346m9ob.txt 


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and re-formatted by File Manager Matt Harris. 

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