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Funeral of Martin E Butler and Other Obsequies
The service for Martin E Butler was held at the Congregational church with Dr E S Hill delivering a long address on life and faith. Pallbearers carried the casket as floral tributes filled the altar and members of the K P and M W A societies attended along with family. Butler, born 1867 in Muscatine Iowa, died March 4 1899 in Atlantic Iowa after a journalism career. his wife Miss Lillian Bilderback survives. A separate funeral for A H Lynch followed at the First Methodist church in Atlantic with Rev W M Dudley and Rev W W Ramsey officiating, Lynch a Virginia native and Cass County pioneer, died March 2 1899 aged 74.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martin E. Butler
Congregational Church
E.S. Hill
W. M. Dudley
Methodist Church
F. M. Alexander
Byron Forshay
Fred Davvson
Cecil Bailey
Chas, Frost
Harry Tilden
K. of P
PF. FE. O
Dudley
W. J. Findley
Brooks
Lincoln
Thos. Whitney
Hill
Zion
Christ
Martin Butler
Martin Edward Butler
Muscatine
Iowa
Atlantic
Lillian Bilderback
May
Butler
M. Bilderback
Nore
A. H. Lynch
First Methodist Church
Poplar
Eighth Streets
W.M. Dudley
J. W
Cary
M. FE
Quint
M. EB
S. Smith
Madge Cavenaugh
Isaac Cevine
C. C. Conrad
D. Findley
J. H. Needles
Hoe
Sarah Elizabeth Blankinship
Richard
Wm, Lynch
Horace Lynch
Mariah Herbert
Ava Mitchell
Clarinda
Laura Clawson
Council Bluffs
Bert Lynch
Oakland