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Alma Butler

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Alma Butler

Birth
Nacogdoches County, Texas, USA
Death
17 Aug 2000 (aged 98)
Nacogdoches County, Texas, USA
Burial
Woden, Nacogdoches County, Texas, USA Add to Map
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1920 census
Household Gender Age
parent William F Butler M 66y
parent Luiza A Butler F 59y
Ada B Butler F 21y
Carl A Butler M 20y
Alma Butler F 18y
Lennie Butler F 16y
Emry R Butler M 13y

May 1964. One of Stephen F. Austin Elementary School's most beloved and devoted teachers, Miss Alma Butler, will retire following the final day of school Friday the 29th, after teaching elementary students for 31 years.
Miss Butler graduated from Woden High School and later taught first grade in the Woden Elementary School for three years while studying at Stephen F. Austin College in Nacogdoches.
After receiving her BS degree from SFA in 1936 she taught first grade in Tarkington Prairie for one year and in Huntington for seven years before coming to Dayton in 1944. The first twelve years in Stephen F. Austin Elementary she taught first grade students and for the past six years she has taught the third grade.
While teaching in Dayton she earned a Masters degree at the University of Houston.
Miss Butler will make her home at the family home in Nacogdoches which she and her sister, Miss Ada Butler, own. She plans to just relax, enjoy life and travel some, after devoting the past 31 years in helping to mold the character of the many hundreds of students she has lovingly and devotedly instructed.
Dayton Texas Memories
1920 census
Household Gender Age
parent William F Butler M 66y
parent Luiza A Butler F 59y
Ada B Butler F 21y
Carl A Butler M 20y
Alma Butler F 18y
Lennie Butler F 16y
Emry R Butler M 13y

May 1964. One of Stephen F. Austin Elementary School's most beloved and devoted teachers, Miss Alma Butler, will retire following the final day of school Friday the 29th, after teaching elementary students for 31 years.
Miss Butler graduated from Woden High School and later taught first grade in the Woden Elementary School for three years while studying at Stephen F. Austin College in Nacogdoches.
After receiving her BS degree from SFA in 1936 she taught first grade in Tarkington Prairie for one year and in Huntington for seven years before coming to Dayton in 1944. The first twelve years in Stephen F. Austin Elementary she taught first grade students and for the past six years she has taught the third grade.
While teaching in Dayton she earned a Masters degree at the University of Houston.
Miss Butler will make her home at the family home in Nacogdoches which she and her sister, Miss Ada Butler, own. She plans to just relax, enjoy life and travel some, after devoting the past 31 years in helping to mold the character of the many hundreds of students she has lovingly and devotedly instructed.
Dayton Texas Memories

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  • Created by: Kristin
  • Added: Mar 31, 2011
  • Find a Grave Memorial ID:
  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/67715458/alma-butler: accessed ), memorial page for Alma Butler (10 Oct 1901–17 Aug 2000), Find a Grave Memorial ID 67715458, citing Jacobs Chapel Cemetery, Woden, Nacogdoches County, Texas, USA; Maintained by Kristin (contributor 46978278).