The body of Cpl. Howard Butler, 24, son of Mrs. Vivian Butler of Farmington, who drowned while fighting in Korea, will arrive in Atchison, Aug. 30. It is being escorted from Oakland, Calif., by Master Sgt. Richard Myrick and will be taken to the Stanton & Stanton mortuary here.
Graveside services will be conducted at 3 p.m. Sunday at the Pardee cemetery, southwest of Atchison, by the Rev. Orville Evans, pastor of the Farmington Christian church.
The pallbearers will be Glenn McCue, Scotty Hall, Glenn Thorne. Dan Teare, Bob Thorne and Dale Gigstad,
Friends of the family will meet at the Farmington Christian church at 2:30 p.m. Sunday and the funeral cortege will leave from there for the cemetery.
A memorial service for Corporal Butler was held at the Farmington Christian church July 16, He drowned July 3.
Corporal Butler had expected to return home this summer on rotation plan. He had been in the army since Oct. 30, 1950, and went overseas in March, 1951.
He was a lifelong member of the Christian church.
Atchison Globe, Wednesday, Aug. 27, 1952
The body of Cpl. Howard Butler, 24, son of Mrs. Vivian Butler of Farmington, who drowned while fighting in Korea, will arrive in Atchison, Aug. 30. It is being escorted from Oakland, Calif., by Master Sgt. Richard Myrick and will be taken to the Stanton & Stanton mortuary here.
Graveside services will be conducted at 3 p.m. Sunday at the Pardee cemetery, southwest of Atchison, by the Rev. Orville Evans, pastor of the Farmington Christian church.
The pallbearers will be Glenn McCue, Scotty Hall, Glenn Thorne. Dan Teare, Bob Thorne and Dale Gigstad,
Friends of the family will meet at the Farmington Christian church at 2:30 p.m. Sunday and the funeral cortege will leave from there for the cemetery.
A memorial service for Corporal Butler was held at the Farmington Christian church July 16, He drowned July 3.
Corporal Butler had expected to return home this summer on rotation plan. He had been in the army since Oct. 30, 1950, and went overseas in March, 1951.
He was a lifelong member of the Christian church.
Atchison Globe, Wednesday, Aug. 27, 1952
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