BUTCHER, Floyd E. "Bud"

BUTCHER, MORRISON, BROWN, WADE, PYLE, QUIGLEY

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 9/2/2016 at 02:38:45

Obituary ~ Floyd E. "Bud" Butcher
June 06, 1915 ~ June 22, 1996

The Globe Gazette
Mason City, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa
July 23, 1995

MASON CITY -- Floyd E. "Bud" Butcher, 63, of 211 20th St. S.E., died Saturday (June 22, 1996) at the I.O.O.F. Home.

Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday at Major Erickson Funeral Home, 111 N. Pennsylvania Ave.

Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home. Other arrangements are still incomplete.

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The Globe Gazette
Mason City, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa
July 25, 1995

Floyd E. "Bud" Butcher, 63, of 211 20th St. S.E., died Saturday (June 22, 1996) at the IOOF Home from complications of Alzheimer's Disease.

Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at Major Erickson Funeral Home, 111 N. Pennsylvania Ave., with the Rev. David Shogren of Wesley United Methodist Church officiating. Interment will be in Memorial Park Cemetery.

Visitation will be held from 4 to 8 p.m. today at Major Erickson Funeral Home, and until time of services on Wednesday.

Floyd E. "Bud" Butcher was born July 15, 1932, the son of Richard and Julia (Morrison) Butcher in Dixon, Mo. Floyd was raised near Rockwell by his uncle and aunt, Art and Florence Butcher. Floyd attended Bath Township #4 Country school and graduated from Rockwell High School in 1951. Floyd worked for Jacob E. Decker and Sons for a short time.

He married Marcia Brown on Feb. 9, 1952, at the First Congregational Church in Mason City.

For a short time, Floyd tenant farmed and worked at Allied Mills.

He then worked for AMPI for 30 years, retiring on disability.

He was a member of Wesley United Methodist Church, the IOOF Lodge #224 and the Moose Lodge.

He volunteered at the Lime Creek Nature Center and was a political volunteer.

Survivors include his wife, Marcia Butcher of Mason City; two daughters, Betty Wade and her husband, Larry, of Rochester, Ill., and Brenda Pyle and her husband, Larry, of Muscatine; two sons, Ken Butcher and his wife, Maureen, of Ankeny, and Steve Butcher and his wife, Sheryl, of Mason City; 12 grandchildren, Chris, Stacy and Heather Wade, Cameron, Seth, Eric and Ellen Pyle, Nicole, Michelle and B.J. Butcher, Kelley and Morgan Quigley; a special uncle, Art Butcher of Mason City; and several nieces, nephews and cousins.

He was preceded in death by his parents; a special aunt, Florence Butcher; one daughter-in-law; and one granddaughter.

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, August of 2016