Bute, Delila Jane Kepler (1864-1962)

BUTE, KEPLER, WEAVER, WARD, WOLFF

Posted By: Debbie Greenfield (email)
Date: 3/17/2017 at 09:27:27

Daily Freeman Journal, Webster City, Iowa, Saturday, February 17, 1962

Mrs. Delila Bute, 98, longtime resident of the Stanhope community, died at 9 p.m. Friday at the Highland nursing home in Des Moines.

Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Methodist church in Stanhope with the Rev. Reed Richards officiating. Burial will be in the Lawn Hill cemetery. The body will lie in state at the Foster funeral home until 11 a.m. Tuesday when it will be taken to the church.

Delila Jane Kepler, daughter of Solomon and Philena Kepler, was born Feb. 14, 1864 in Stubbin county, Ind. When she was a small girl, she moved with her parents to Iowa, locating on a farm south of Webster City.

She received her elementary schooling in the rural schools and later attended the first high school in Webster City.

She was united in marriage to William Bute and the couple made their home in Stanhope where Mr. Bute engaged in the carpentry trade.

For the past five years, Mrs. Bute had resided in Des Moines.

She was preceded in death by her husband in 1937; by her parents, two brothers and five sisters.

Surviving are three daughters and three sons, Mrs. Nellie Weaver of Kansas City, Mo., Mrs. Celestial Ward of Anthon, Iowa, and Mrs. Lillian Wolff of Des Moines; Elvin W. Bute of Waterloo, John E. Bute of Washington, D.C. and Glen L. Bute of Chicago, Ill., 12 grandchildren, 22 great-grandchildren; and one brother, Jacob Kepler of Lemon, S.D.

Mrs. Bute was a longtime member of the Methodist church at Stanhope.