ARP - Services for Ethel B. Butler, 91, of Lumberton, Miss., formerly of Arp, will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday, March 13, in the Cottle-Pearson Funeral Home Chapel, Overton. Burial will follow at Mason Cemetery in Arp.
Mrs. Butler passed away peacefully on March 11, 2010, after a short illness. She was born Dec. 15, 1918, in New Chapel Hill, the ninth of 12 children of William Jefferson and Georgiana Uber Allen.
She was preceded in death by her first husband, Lillard Slayton, who was killed in an oil rig accident in 1940. During World War II she worked in Midland, packing parachutes for the Army Air Corps. There, she met Finis Cole "Doc" Butler, and they were married in 1945. Doc preceded her in death in 1988.
Ethel worked at sewing factories in Texas, Oklahoma and Mississippi. In 1959, she graduated from cosmetology school, working as a hair dresser for several years. In the early 1970s, she went to work for General Electric Corp., from which she retired in 1982.
Ethel loved to travel. She and Doc journeyed around the country in their motor home. She said she would go anywhere "as long as I could drag a foot on the ground." But that changed when she and Doc flew to Jamaica on their way to visit their daughter and son-in-law, who was in the Navy stationed at Guantanamo Bay Naval Air Station, Cuba.
Ethel was an accomplished seamstress and her love of sewing and crocheting has given her family much joy. The quilts she created are true works of art.
Ethel was preceded in death by her parents and 10 siblings. She is survived by her sister, Veneta Allen Jones of Greenville, Ky. She is also survived by her son, L. Don Slayton and wife Debra of Deer Park; two daughters, Diana and husband Danny J. Williams and LaNell Butler of Lumberton, Miss.; five grandchildren, Donna Slayton Shiffler, DeLisa Slayton Strege, Damon Butler, Daniel Williams and Dania Jo Williams Saucier; and six great-grandchildren, Kendall and Bailey Shiffler, Olivia and Keith Strege, Jack Butler, and baby boy (Jake) Butler, due in June.
To view online or to sign the guestbook, go to www.cottlefuneralhome.com.
Published in the Tyler Morning Telegraph on 3/13/2010
Mrs. Butler passed away peacefully on March 11, 2010, after a short illness. She was born Dec. 15, 1918, in New Chapel Hill, the ninth of 12 children of William Jefferson and Georgiana Uber Allen.
She was preceded in death by her first husband, Lillard Slayton, who was killed in an oil rig accident in 1940. During World War II she worked in Midland, packing parachutes for the Army Air Corps. There, she met Finis Cole "Doc" Butler, and they were married in 1945. Doc preceded her in death in 1988.
Ethel worked at sewing factories in Texas, Oklahoma and Mississippi. In 1959, she graduated from cosmetology school, working as a hair dresser for several years. In the early 1970s, she went to work for General Electric Corp., from which she retired in 1982.
Ethel loved to travel. She and Doc journeyed around the country in their motor home. She said she would go anywhere "as long as I could drag a foot on the ground." But that changed when she and Doc flew to Jamaica on their way to visit their daughter and son-in-law, who was in the Navy stationed at Guantanamo Bay Naval Air Station, Cuba.
Ethel was an accomplished seamstress and her love of sewing and crocheting has given her family much joy. The quilts she created are true works of art.
Ethel was preceded in death by her parents and 10 siblings. She is survived by her sister, Veneta Allen Jones of Greenville, Ky. She is also survived by her son, L. Don Slayton and wife Debra of Deer Park; two daughters, Diana and husband Danny J. Williams and LaNell Butler of Lumberton, Miss.; five grandchildren, Donna Slayton Shiffler, DeLisa Slayton Strege, Damon Butler, Daniel Williams and Dania Jo Williams Saucier; and six great-grandchildren, Kendall and Bailey Shiffler, Olivia and Keith Strege, Jack Butler, and baby boy (Jake) Butler, due in June.
To view online or to sign the guestbook, go to www.cottlefuneralhome.com.
Published in the Tyler Morning Telegraph on 3/13/2010
ARP - Services for Ethel B. Butler, 91, of Lumberton, Miss., formerly of Arp, will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday, March 13, in the Cottle-Pearson Funeral Home Chapel, Overton. Burial will follow at Mason Cemetery in Arp.
Mrs. Butler passed away peacefully on March 11, 2010, after a short illness. She was born Dec. 15, 1918, in New Chapel Hill, the ninth of 12 children of William Jefferson and Georgiana Uber Allen.
She was preceded in death by her first husband, Lillard Slayton, who was killed in an oil rig accident in 1940. During World War II she worked in Midland, packing parachutes for the Army Air Corps. There, she met Finis Cole "Doc" Butler, and they were married in 1945. Doc preceded her in death in 1988.
Ethel worked at sewing factories in Texas, Oklahoma and Mississippi. In 1959, she graduated from cosmetology school, working as a hair dresser for several years. In the early 1970s, she went to work for General Electric Corp., from which she retired in 1982.
Ethel loved to travel. She and Doc journeyed around the country in their motor home. She said she would go anywhere "as long as I could drag a foot on the ground." But that changed when she and Doc flew to Jamaica on their way to visit their daughter and son-in-law, who was in the Navy stationed at Guantanamo Bay Naval Air Station, Cuba.
Ethel was an accomplished seamstress and her love of sewing and crocheting has given her family much joy. The quilts she created are true works of art.
Ethel was preceded in death by her parents and 10 siblings. She is survived by her sister, Veneta Allen Jones of Greenville, Ky. She is also survived by her son, L. Don Slayton and wife Debra of Deer Park; two daughters, Diana and husband Danny J. Williams and LaNell Butler of Lumberton, Miss.; five grandchildren, Donna Slayton Shiffler, DeLisa Slayton Strege, Damon Butler, Daniel Williams and Dania Jo Williams Saucier; and six great-grandchildren, Kendall and Bailey Shiffler, Olivia and Keith Strege, Jack Butler, and baby boy (Jake) Butler, due in June.
To view online or to sign the guestbook, go to www.cottlefuneralhome.com.
Published in the Tyler Morning Telegraph on 3/13/2010
Mrs. Butler passed away peacefully on March 11, 2010, after a short illness. She was born Dec. 15, 1918, in New Chapel Hill, the ninth of 12 children of William Jefferson and Georgiana Uber Allen.
She was preceded in death by her first husband, Lillard Slayton, who was killed in an oil rig accident in 1940. During World War II she worked in Midland, packing parachutes for the Army Air Corps. There, she met Finis Cole "Doc" Butler, and they were married in 1945. Doc preceded her in death in 1988.
Ethel worked at sewing factories in Texas, Oklahoma and Mississippi. In 1959, she graduated from cosmetology school, working as a hair dresser for several years. In the early 1970s, she went to work for General Electric Corp., from which she retired in 1982.
Ethel loved to travel. She and Doc journeyed around the country in their motor home. She said she would go anywhere "as long as I could drag a foot on the ground." But that changed when she and Doc flew to Jamaica on their way to visit their daughter and son-in-law, who was in the Navy stationed at Guantanamo Bay Naval Air Station, Cuba.
Ethel was an accomplished seamstress and her love of sewing and crocheting has given her family much joy. The quilts she created are true works of art.
Ethel was preceded in death by her parents and 10 siblings. She is survived by her sister, Veneta Allen Jones of Greenville, Ky. She is also survived by her son, L. Don Slayton and wife Debra of Deer Park; two daughters, Diana and husband Danny J. Williams and LaNell Butler of Lumberton, Miss.; five grandchildren, Donna Slayton Shiffler, DeLisa Slayton Strege, Damon Butler, Daniel Williams and Dania Jo Williams Saucier; and six great-grandchildren, Kendall and Bailey Shiffler, Olivia and Keith Strege, Jack Butler, and baby boy (Jake) Butler, due in June.
To view online or to sign the guestbook, go to www.cottlefuneralhome.com.
Published in the Tyler Morning Telegraph on 3/13/2010
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