----Source: Greenwood Library Scrapbook Collection

MARSHFIELD NEWS HERALD 6/22/1940

BUTCHER SERVICES HELD ON Thursday
LAST RITES ARE HELD AT GREENWOOD FOR FORMER RESIDENT

Greenwood Funeral services were conducted Thursday afternoon at the Methodist Church, Greenwood, Clark County, for Mrs. Mary L. Butcher, 76, who died June 18, 1940 at Minneapolis.

The Rev. M.K. Aaberg officiated at the rites in the absence of the regular pastor, the Rev. A.J. Abbott. Interment was made in the Butcher family lot in the Greenwood Cemetery.

Miss Evangeline Sheets and Mrs. Chal Perkins sang "Beautiful Isle of Somehwere" and "Abide With Me", with piano accompaniment by Miss Mabel Bishop.

Pallbearers were Otto Schwarze, Arthur Humke, Clair Fox, E.L. Ketchpaw, Don Warner, and George Humke. The Royal Neighbors of America Camp of Greenwood, of which she was a member for 30 years, contributed a spray of white peonies and purple iris, the lodge colors.

Relatives and friends from out of town were Mr. and Mrs. A.M. Drake and son, David, Minneapolis Mrs. Orwin Lien and son, Donald, Madison George Hintz and daughter, Mona, Menomonie Jimmie Butcher, Willard Mrs. Arnold Beyer and Mrs. Ethel Van Horn, Alma Center and Mrs. Alice Quilling, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Hintz, Mrs. Anna Hintz, Mrs. George Hintz, Mrs. Charles Harshmand and Mrs. August Lang, all of Menomonie.