Obit: Butcher, Lucian S. (1889 - 1953)

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Surnames: Butcher, Reese, Kaveskas, St. Clair, Lien, Barkett, Drake

----Source: Greenwood Gleaner (Greenwood, Clark Co., Wis.) 16 Jul 1953

Butcher, Lucian S. (17 SEP 1889 - 1 JUL 1953)

Lucian Stephen Butcher was born at Wabasha, Minn. on Sept. 13, 1889. At the age of nine years, he, with his parents, moved to Wisconsin to the Town of Beaver (Clark Co., Wis.), east of Greenwood. He grew to manhood on a farm which hisparents purchased in the German Settlement. For several years he worked as a mechanic at what was known as Arbs Garage and Machine Shop.

Mr. Butcher entered the army on Sept. 11, 1917 and was stationed at Camp Grant, Rockford, Ill. with the 321st M.G. Battalion, 82nd Division. He went overseas in August 1918 and saw action in the Meuse-Argonne Sector. He was honorably discharged from the service at Camp Grant on May 26, 1919, at the rank of Private.

Lucian was a member of the Henry D. Wallis Post of the American Legion in Greenwood for many years and was at the time of his death, a member of the V.F.W. Rio Post No. 2369 at McAllen, Texas.

On Nov. 6, 1919 Lucian Stephen Butcher was married to Emma Jane Reese at Greenwood To this union was born Iris Jane, Mrs. Joseph Kaveskas, Chicago, Ill., and James Stephen, with the Navy overseas.

Mr. and Mrs. Butcher began their married life in a home which they purchased at Willard, Wis. In the years that followed, Mr. Butcher owned and operated a portable sawmill and the Willard Garage.

From 1949 he worked on maintenance for the Mid-State Gummed Paper Co. in Chicago and the Tankenoff Equipment Co. at Bloomer and Merrill, Wis.

In 1940 Mr. and Mrs. Butcher left Wisconsin for the southwest. They traveled through Arizona, New Mexico and Texas, finally making their home at Bullhead City, Arizona on August 15, 1951.

Lucian S. Butcher died at Mahove General Hospital, Kingman, Arizona on July 1, 1953 at 11:00 o'clock a.m.. Funeral services were held at 2:00 p.m., July 3 at the Klinkenheard-Van Marten Memorial Chapel, Kingman, Arizona. Rev. John Street, pastor of the Bullhead City Baptist Church, officiated.

Two duets, "Whispering Hope" and "The Lord is My Shepherd", were sung by Mesdames Dixon and Faver, accompanied by Mrs. John J. Johnston on the piano. Honorary pallbearers were six of Lucian's neighbors.

He leaves his wife, daughter Jane and son James, four sisters, Mrs. Bessie St. Clair, Chicago; Mrs. Maggie Lien, Madison; Mrs. Adelaide Barkett, San Francisco, Calif.; and Mrs. Helen Drake, Minneapolis. Also three grandchildren and nephews.

L.S. Butcher was a good husband and father and a sincere friend. He will be missed by many who knew him.