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John Towner Butcher

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John Towner Butcher

Birth
St. Clair County, Missouri, USA
Death
8 Mar 1941 (aged 63)
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, USA
Burial
Edmond, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, USA GPS-Latitude: 35.6676188, Longitude: -97.4790882
Plot
Block: 014A, Lot: 084, Space: SW
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John was the son of Preston BUTCHER (1841) and Mary MCCOLLUM Butcher (1842).

He was married to Angie Ray LYNCH on 28 Dec 1904.

Together they had two children:

John M. BUTCHER (1913)
Helen A. BUTCHER (1916)

John worked as a professor at the State Teachers College.

Obituary

John T. Butcher, School Leader, Dies in Edmond

Veteran Teachers is Victim of Heart Ailment.

A heart ailment took the life of John T. Butcher, Oklahoma educator and lecturer since 1901, Saturday at his home in Edmond. Butcher, 62 year old professor of education and former director of the training school at Central State college was ill only an hour.

Butcher served as Chickasaw high school's first principal in 1901, coming to the state from Kansas. After terms as superintendent of Blackwell schools and mathematics department head at Tonkawa preparatory school. he left to become principal of Klamath County, Oregon, high school.

In 1910, he returned as mathematics teacher at Oklahoma City (now Central) high school, then served as superintendent of schools at Pauls Valley and El Reno. He joined the college's faculty in 1926.

His other activities included extension lectures and several terms on the executive committee of the Oklahoma Education association.

Born in St. Clair Co, Missouri, March 28, 1878, Butcher moved at an early age to Kansas. Dec. 28, 1904, he was married to Miss Angie Lynch, former superintendent of Oklahoma county schools. He was graduated from the University of Kansas with an A.B. degree and later earned his masters degree at the University of Oklahoma.

Survivors include a daughter, Helen, student at the university of Michigan; a son, John jr., Sarasota, Fla., a physician; four brothers, Frank of Wichita, Luther of Mississippi, N. E., Kingkade hotel, city, and O.P. of Coffeyville, Kan.; two sisters, Mrs. Estelle Goppert, Cody, Wyo., and Mrs. Bessie L. Harmon, Sedan Kan., and one grandson.

Butcher was a Mason, a member of the Christian church, and an active YMCA worker. Services will be enounce by the Pass funeral home, Edmond.
John was the son of Preston BUTCHER (1841) and Mary MCCOLLUM Butcher (1842).

He was married to Angie Ray LYNCH on 28 Dec 1904.

Together they had two children:

John M. BUTCHER (1913)
Helen A. BUTCHER (1916)

John worked as a professor at the State Teachers College.

Obituary

John T. Butcher, School Leader, Dies in Edmond

Veteran Teachers is Victim of Heart Ailment.

A heart ailment took the life of John T. Butcher, Oklahoma educator and lecturer since 1901, Saturday at his home in Edmond. Butcher, 62 year old professor of education and former director of the training school at Central State college was ill only an hour.

Butcher served as Chickasaw high school's first principal in 1901, coming to the state from Kansas. After terms as superintendent of Blackwell schools and mathematics department head at Tonkawa preparatory school. he left to become principal of Klamath County, Oregon, high school.

In 1910, he returned as mathematics teacher at Oklahoma City (now Central) high school, then served as superintendent of schools at Pauls Valley and El Reno. He joined the college's faculty in 1926.

His other activities included extension lectures and several terms on the executive committee of the Oklahoma Education association.

Born in St. Clair Co, Missouri, March 28, 1878, Butcher moved at an early age to Kansas. Dec. 28, 1904, he was married to Miss Angie Lynch, former superintendent of Oklahoma county schools. He was graduated from the University of Kansas with an A.B. degree and later earned his masters degree at the University of Oklahoma.

Survivors include a daughter, Helen, student at the university of Michigan; a son, John jr., Sarasota, Fla., a physician; four brothers, Frank of Wichita, Luther of Mississippi, N. E., Kingkade hotel, city, and O.P. of Coffeyville, Kan.; two sisters, Mrs. Estelle Goppert, Cody, Wyo., and Mrs. Bessie L. Harmon, Sedan Kan., and one grandson.

Butcher was a Mason, a member of the Christian church, and an active YMCA worker. Services will be enounce by the Pass funeral home, Edmond.


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