Sgt. Onie Butt (1919-1944)

BUTT, THOMSON

Posted By: Anne Hermann (email)
Date: 3/10/2010 at 21:31:14

Jackson Sentinel, May 12, 1944

Sgt. Onie Butt Dies at Schick Hospital
Funeral Wednesday at Monmouth

Sgt. Onie Butt, 24, died at 4:00 o’clock, Sunday morning at Schick Hospital, Clinton, where he had been a patient since February 23.

Funeral service was held at 2:00 o’clock Wednesday afternoon in the Monmouth Methodist Church with the Rev. F. E. Mastin of McCausland, officiating. Military rites were conducted at the graveside.

Onie Butt, son of Hattie and Squire Butt, was born November 10, 1919, near Monmouth. He married Marguerite Thomson January 5, 1943 and enlisted in the Army Air Corps March 23, 1943. He was stationed at Ardmore, Oklahoma until he became ill in January, 1944.

He is survived by his wife, a daughter, Carolyn Sue, and his mother, all of Monmouth, and three brothers, George, of Egan, Illinois, Henry of Lost Nation, and Bennie, of Monmouth.