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Butler, Laura Anna (Gorsuch) 1879-1936

BUTLER, GORSUCH, BANGHAM

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 5/11/2018 at 22:44:52

February 4, 1879 --- December 24, 1936

MRS. FRANK BUTLER FUNERAL SATURDAY
Interment in Union Mills Cemetery
Died at Her Home West of Union Mills Following Long Illness

Laura Anna Gorsuch was born in Poweshiek county, five miles southwest of Montezuma, February 4, 1879, and died at her home a mile west of Union Mills at 11:55 am, Thursday, December 24. She was 57 years, ten months and 20 days old.

She spent her childhood and youth in the neighborhood of Montezuma. In her young womanhood days she united with the Methodist church which was then in the Browntown neighborhood.

She was united in marriage to Frank Alvin Butler on June 9, 1898, at the home of her parents. To this union five children were born, three sons and two daughters: Dewey Butler of Montezuma, Lewis Butler of Grundy Center, Cecil Butler of New Sharon, Helen Butler of New Sharon, and Rosa, who preceded her mother in death. There are also six grandchildren.

Besides these immediate relatives she leaves four brothers and one sister; Fred Gorsuch of Seneca, Kan.; George Gorsuch of Des Moines; J. B. Gorsuch of Montezuma; Clay Gorsuch of Barnes City; and Mrs. J. A. Bangham of Grinnell. Besides these are a number of other relatives and a host of lifelong friends.

Mrs. Butler spent her entire married life in Poweshiek and Mahaska counties, having lived the past nine years west of Union Mills. She had been in poor health for several years and quite ill the last three or four months.

Mrs. Butler was a good mother and a devoted wife. She had expressed her entire willingness to go when the Lord was ready to take her, and she said that she was prepared to go.

Funeral services were conducted at the Union Mills Christian church by the pastor, the Rev. Hugh C. Guy, at 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon, December 26. Mrs. Ret Duffus and Tom Klinker sang "The Old Rugged Cross," "Beautiful Isle of Somewhere," and "Going Down the Valley." Miss Martha Brody was at the piano. Burial was in Union Mills cemetery.

31 December 1936
Montezuma Republican --- Montezuma, Iowa


 

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