Wayne Buttry (1918-1943)

BUTTRY, BARR, HAGEN, CHRISTIAN, BURLEY

Posted By: Mark Christian
Date: 3/3/2009 at 10:14:24

THE AMES TRIBUNE, Ames, Story County, Iowa, Thursday, September 23, 1943.

Buttry Is Dead, Funeral Services at Colo Friday

Funeral rites for Wayne Buttry, 25, second victim of the automobile fatality, which occurred early Monday morning, on No. 69, near Ankeny, in which Joe Burley, companion of Buttry, was instantly killed, will be held Friday at 2 p. m. at the Methodist church in Colo, and burial will be at Colo.

Buttry, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Buttry, of northeast of Ames, who had been inducted into the U. S. Army, only the day before the accident, died at the Broadlawns General hospital at Des Moines Wednesday, from the injuries sustained in the accident, thus becoming the second fatality of the tragedy, in which he sustained serious head injury, a double fracture of the bones of one leg and various other injuries.

Funeral services for Joe Burley, 24, drive of the car, who was killed instantly, were held Wednesday afternoon in Lilly Funeral Home, Nevada, with burial in Nevada cemetery. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Burley.

The crash occurred about 3 a. m. Monday two miles south of Ankeny on Highway 69.

Buttry's body was brought form the hospital to the Duckworth-Kroll funeral home at Ames.

Buttry had been farming for his parents, and recently received a release from them to join the army. He was inducted into the army last Friday at Camp Dodge, and was on the ususal induction furlough when the fatal accident occurred.

Wayne Buttry was born on a farm near Colo, April 8, 1918 and lived in that part of the county the greater part of his life. He attended and graduated from the Zearing high school. The family moved from the east part of the county onto a farm northeast of Ames in Milford township about four years ago, and it was there that the young man was employed when he entered the U. S. army.

Besides his mother and father, he leaves to mourn his death, three brothers, Russell, who is in the Army Air Corps, stationed in North Carolina, Carl, who is at the parental home near Ames, and Roy, of Nevada, three sisters, Mrs. Charley Barr of Ames, Mrs. Hermie Hagen of Ames, and Mrs. Marion Christian of near Colo.

The brother, Russell, who is now in the air service, had recently received his overseas orders and arrived home on a furlough only a few hours after the fatal accident, which claimed the life of his brother. In fact, during the hours that his family here was making an effort to contact him by wire to advise him of Wayne's accident, Russell was on his way here.

FOLLOWING CLIPPING FROM UNKNOWN PAPER, PROBABLY THE AMES TRIBUNE.

Corp. Russel Buttry, brother of Wayne Buttry, critically injured in an auto accident Monday, arrived in Des Moines Monday and while in an oil station in Ames that night, accidentally ran into his brother, Roy of Nevada, brother-in-law, Marion Christian and three of his sisters. The group had spent Monday in a Des Moines hospital at the bedside of the brother Wayne. Corp. Buttry, who has been stationed at the air base at Camp Seymour Johnson in North Carolina, had just received his overseas notice and has been granted a week's furlough to visit his people at home. While local relatives were making an effort to reach him by wire at the air base, he was on the train enroute home.