The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1910-04-28
Lies fitfuI Fever Over For Mrs.
Geo. Butler
GOES TO HER REWARD
Faithful Wife and Mother and Pro-
minent Church Worker Dies
After LONG Illness


CURED in Sank Centre for along time
was held at 2 o'clock Monday, April
25, from the Methodist church, when
tht relatives and friends of Mrs. Leta.
May Butler, the wife Of Geo. Butler
Of this city, met to pay the last honor
tc heer memory.
For seven long and weary weeks
Mrs. Butler lay upon a sick bed at
hel home, while husband, father and
mother and other relatives and many
friends watched and prayed beside
her. She was the victim of pleuro
pneumonia. At one time, after some
weeks of severe illness, Mrs. Butler
rallied and for time she seemed on
the sure road to recovery but she suf-
fered a relapse audit was not long
before the dread disease won the
fight for a life. The end came at
Is o'clock Friday morning, April %,
when the soul took it's peaceful flight
from the weary body.
The church was crowded to it's ca
pacity the afternoon of the funeral
Its seating capacity is over four hum
dred Every seat was taken, extra
chairs were placed and many people
stood. Fully five hundred people
were inside the edifice, while many
more, unable to gain admission, stood
outside during the services. The
Ess .ern Star. Degree of Honor and
the Maccabees, in each of which or
ders Mrs. Butler was an honored mem
Der, attended in a body.
In addition to the assembling Of
hundreds Of people at the church,
business men closed their doors for
ALI hour and the city stopped for that
space of time to pay tribute to the
memory of the woman whom all had
known and loved in life.
There was a wreath of flowers at
the church, in fact the caskeet was
almost hidden under the beautiful and
fra grant blossoms. Each of the Sc
cret orders to which Mrs. Butler had
belonged contributed a set piece Of
appropriate design, while many cut
flowers came from relatives and
friends.
The services latsed an hour. The
pastor Of the church, Rev. ]. T. B.
Smith, officiated, choosing as the
basis for his remarks the two script
ure texts: "For me to live is Christ
and to die is gain, and "A woman
that fears the Lord shall be praised.
He paid high tribute to Mrs. But
ler's Christian life and virtues and
spoke feelingly of her faaithfulness
IL the church choir, where she had
officiated as organists for long time,
of her work in the Ladies' Aid So
ciety, in fact of her general useful
ness in all branches of church work.
He said she was a woman loved by
ALL His remarks found echo in the
he arts and minds of ALL
A sextette choir composed of Mrs.
Emma Miller and Mrs. Geo. Fish, So
pranos; Mrs. Geo. O'Gara and Mrs.
y. G. Lyman, altos; DR.. H. F. Hen
nemann, tenor; A. F. Strebel, bass,
rendered the three hymns ut is Well
with My Soul', "Shall We Meet Be-
You'd the River, ASLEEP in Jesus.
Miss Maud White accompanied on the
organ.
At the close of the service 81 car
riages followed the remains to Green
wood where interment occurred. The
pail bearers were: JAS. McCracken.
Ed Hansen, Gro. Fish, ]. M. Wilson,
A. C. Kay, B. c. Derrick.
Relatives from outside the city who
attended the funeral were: Mr.. and