Jessie Butler

MOUND CITY, Ill. -- Jessie Mae Butler of Mound City died Sunday, Dec. 2, 2001, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau.

She was born in Ullin, Ill., daughter of Martha Curd and Jesse Meals.

She was a member of Mt. Moriah Baptist Church in Cairo, Ill., where she once sang in the choir and served on the board.

She and Pearl Butler were married April 22, 1941.

She graduated from Douglas High School in Mounds, Ill., and worked as a beautician, Mound City school cook and a state employee.

She retired from civil service in 1983, having worked for the University of Illinois Homemakers Extension, the Illinois Welfare Department and the Illinois Department of Employment Security in Cairo.

Survivors include her husband of Mound City; a son, Gary Tyrono; two daughters, Connie Black and Sheila Lavizzo; two sisters, Marie Deboe and Mildred Lee, both of Toledo, Ohio; nine grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by a son and a sister.

Funeral will be at 1 p.m. today at Mt. Moriah Baptist Church, with the Rev. Christopher Barnes officiating. Burial will be in Mt. Zion Cemetery near Olmsted, Ill.

Massie Funeral Home in Cairo handled the arrangements.