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Laura Kathryn <I>Butler</I> Levin

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Laura Kathryn Butler Levin

Birth
Faith, Meade County, South Dakota, USA
Death
17 Jan 2016 (aged 93)
Sturgis, Meade County, South Dakota, USA
Burial
Sturgis, Meade County, South Dakota, USA Add to Map
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Parents: Burtis & Agnes (Jameson) Butler

Siblings: all preceding her in death, 5 sisters and two brothers

Husband: G. Levin of Hereford, June 14, 1943

Children: sons; L. Levin, D. Levin, and and infant son that passed away, and daughter: S. Levin

She leaves behind numerous grandchildren, step-grandchildren, adopted grandchildren, and great-grandchildren.

Schooling: 1-8 country school southwest of Faith, Freshman year, Spearfish High School (1936), Faith High School (1937), Sturgis High School (1938-1940), and attended normal training in Corning, IA, receiving her teaching certificate in September, 1942.

Places lived: family homestead at Faith, Hereford, Stugis, Chester, MT, Hungry Horse MT, and back to Strugs,

Work History: Teaching at Wetz School in Meade County for a year, Lee's Five and Dime (1955), JC Penny, purchased an irrigated farm south of Newell (1958-1968), larger farm/ranch purchased in Hereford (1968), and retired to Sturgis in 1985.

Hobbies and activities: maintaining a huge garden, making her legendary pickles (two of her grandson's carry on this tradition, with one mastering it), extensive traveling (driving their motor home to may ares of the US, spending 5 summers in Alaska and Canada, spending many winters in southern Texas, visited relatives in Sweden, and took in sights of Norway and Denmark), hard worker, dedicating much of her life to caring for her grandchildren, sewing, baking, and cooking.

Memberships: Hereford Sewing Circle, South Dakota Farmers Union, served on the District School Board from 1949-1953, member of Church of God of Prophecy, Sturgis, (cooking for at the Church Youth Camp, having Holloween hayrides, Newell)

Visitation at Kinkade Funeral Chapel with internment at Bear Butte Cemetery.
Parents: Burtis & Agnes (Jameson) Butler

Siblings: all preceding her in death, 5 sisters and two brothers

Husband: G. Levin of Hereford, June 14, 1943

Children: sons; L. Levin, D. Levin, and and infant son that passed away, and daughter: S. Levin

She leaves behind numerous grandchildren, step-grandchildren, adopted grandchildren, and great-grandchildren.

Schooling: 1-8 country school southwest of Faith, Freshman year, Spearfish High School (1936), Faith High School (1937), Sturgis High School (1938-1940), and attended normal training in Corning, IA, receiving her teaching certificate in September, 1942.

Places lived: family homestead at Faith, Hereford, Stugis, Chester, MT, Hungry Horse MT, and back to Strugs,

Work History: Teaching at Wetz School in Meade County for a year, Lee's Five and Dime (1955), JC Penny, purchased an irrigated farm south of Newell (1958-1968), larger farm/ranch purchased in Hereford (1968), and retired to Sturgis in 1985.

Hobbies and activities: maintaining a huge garden, making her legendary pickles (two of her grandson's carry on this tradition, with one mastering it), extensive traveling (driving their motor home to may ares of the US, spending 5 summers in Alaska and Canada, spending many winters in southern Texas, visited relatives in Sweden, and took in sights of Norway and Denmark), hard worker, dedicating much of her life to caring for her grandchildren, sewing, baking, and cooking.

Memberships: Hereford Sewing Circle, South Dakota Farmers Union, served on the District School Board from 1949-1953, member of Church of God of Prophecy, Sturgis, (cooking for at the Church Youth Camp, having Holloween hayrides, Newell)

Visitation at Kinkade Funeral Chapel with internment at Bear Butte Cemetery.


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