September 3, 1995

EDDIE MAE BUTLER

SIKESTON -- Eddie Mae Butler, 76, of Sikeston died Thursday, Aug. 31, 1995, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. She was born July 3, 1919, in New Madrid to the late Hiram Gardner and Georgia Moss Gardner. She was a homemaker, a member of the West End Baptist Church since 1953 and a former member of the senior choir and the missionary society...

SIKESTON -- Eddie Mae Butler, 76, of Sikeston died Thursday, Aug. 31, 1995, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau.

She was born July 3, 1919, in New Madrid to the late Hiram Gardner and Georgia Moss Gardner.

She was a homemaker, a member of the West End Baptist Church since 1953 and a former member of the senior choir and the missionary society.

She married Sherman Butler on Aug. 7, 1935. He survives.

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Also surviving is a son, Lonnie Bernard of San Bernardino, Calif.; a brother, Milton Gardner of St. Louis; three sisters, Lucille Wilson of Minneapolis, Ruth Eubanks of Gary, Ind., and Ruby Daniels of Davenport, Iowa; and three grandchildren.

Friends may call from 6 to 8 p.m. Monday at the Williams-Farr and Purnell Funeral Home in Sikeston.

Funeral will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the West End Baptist Church in Sikeston, with the Rev. Ronald Williams officiating.

Interment will follow in the Smith West End Cemetery.

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