August 19, 1993

ROBERT BUTTS

ANNA, Ill. -- Robert Butts, 71, of Anna, died Wednesday, Aug. 18, 1993, at Jackson County Nursing Home in Murphysboro. He was born Jan. 11, 1922, in Marion, son of Elmer and Myrtle Gershbacher Butts. He and Violet Miller Foreman were married June 15, 1968...

ANNA, Ill. -- Robert Butts, 71, of Anna, died Wednesday, Aug. 18, 1993, at Jackson County Nursing Home in Murphysboro.

He was born Jan. 11, 1922, in Marion, son of Elmer and Myrtle Gershbacher Butts. He and Violet Miller Foreman were married June 15, 1968.

Butts was a member of Marion VFW Post 1301.

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Survivors include his wife; two stepdaughters, Alice Boyd of Anna, Sydney Spencer of Powder Springs, Ga.; a brother, Don Butts of Benton; a sister, Mary Tullis of Toledo, Ohio; five stepgrandchildren, and four great-stepgrandchildren.

Funeral service will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at Crain Funeral Home here. The Rev. John Prather will officiate. Burial will be in Anna Cemetery, with military graveside rites by Carroll P. Foster VFW Post 3455.

Friends may call at the funeral home after 5 p.m. Friday.

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