Eleanor Joyce (Spires) BUTLER WILLIAMS

WILLIAMS, BUTLER, SPIRES, ORR, GRIFFITH, GILBERT, SHROLL, LARSON, HURTT

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 7/1/2010 at 13:05:25

July 1, 2010
The Daily Freeman Journal -- Webster City,IA

September 22, 1929 -- June 30, 2010

Eleanor Butler Williams, 80, of Webster City, died Wednesday, June 30, 2010 at Crestview Senior Living. Graveside services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Friday at the Troy Township Cemetery, south of Eagle Grove, with Pastor Leonard Carlson officiating. Visitation will be at the Foster Funeral and Cremation Center from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Thursday and Friday until 1:00 p.m.

Eleanor Joyce Spires, daughter of James and Amy Orr Spires, was born September 22, 1929 at Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. At the age of ten, she moved with her parents to Woolstock. She attended Woolstock Public School. On September 4, 1946, she married Gale Maynard Butler at the Woolstock United Methodist Church. They resided at Woolstock for 26 years. Mr. Butler died January 10, 1973. On November 8, 1975, she married Gerald A. Williams at Woolstock. They resided at Woolstock. Mr. Williams died April 16, 1999. She continued to live at Woolstock. She moved to Crestview Senior Living in 2003.

Mrs. Williams is survived by son and daughter-in-law, Virgil and Julie Butler of Clarion; daughters and sons-in-law, Crystal and Dick Griffith, LeLanie and Marvin Gilbert, all of Webster City; Kim Butler of Eagle Grove; Marliss and Richard Shroll of Battle Creek, MI; 11 grandchildren; 17 great-grandchildren; sister, Evelyn Larson of Mitchellville; several nieces and nephews. In addition to her husbands, she was preceded in death by a son, Vincent R. Butler in 1969; her parents; brothers, Maurice, Clifford, Irvin, Ralph, Lester and Charles Spires; sister, Mildred Hurtt. She was a member of the Woolstock United Methodist Church and United Methodist Women.