Struggling family stunned by 2-year-old son's death

Sunday, December 23, 2007

PATTON, Mo. -- They buried Ethan Butler in the southwest corner of the family cemetery Nov. 15, his mother Jennifer's birthday. In family tradition, Jennifer's brothers dug Ethan's grave just as they dug their father's five years earlier.

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