The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-18
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WESTERN union
PIONEER CHIEF
MahIon D. Butler Services
Tuesday; Ex-TeIegraph
and G. A. R. Officer.

Funeral services for MahIon D.
Butler, 81, retired manager of the
Western Union Telegraph Company
Office here and former adjutant-
| general of the G.. A. R. will be held
at the home, 2157 Central avenue,
Tuesday, 2:30 p. m. Burial will be
in Piqua, o.
A complication of diseases caused
MIR. Buffers death at his home
Saturday night after six months
illness.
Mr.. Butler became manager of
the Western Union Office here in
1870, holding the position until his
retirement in 1907. He was pio-
neer in Indiana Masonry, mem
Der of Mystic Tie lodge, Scottish
Rite and Shrine.
Surviving are a son, Samuel Lee
Butler, with whom he lived; two
grandsons, John L. and Mahlon
Butler, all Of Indianapolis, and a
sister, Mrs. Florence Butler Wells,
of New York.
Funeral services were held at
Shirley Brothers chapel at 9 this
morning for John Noble Goldman,
"a, credit manager of the Colonial
Furniture Company, who died at the
Methodist hospital Sunday after an
illness of several weeks.
Funeral services will be held at
Eckerty, Ind, Tuesday afternoon
and burial will be in Bethany Gene
terry, Crawford county.
Mr.. Goldman lived at the Lor-
raine hotel
Survivors are two brothers, Dan
H. Goldman of Indianapolis, and
DR.. o. P. Goldman, Rockport.
Funeral services were held at
Newcastle today for John Burgess,
81, Indianapolis real estate dealer,
who died Friday at Savannah, Ga.
He was buried in Newcastle ceme-
terry.
Mr.. Burgess was born in Hamilton
county, later moving to Newcastle,
and served two terms as Henry
county clerk. He came to Indian
apolis ten years ago and opened the
Burgess Realty Company with
offices in the Lemcke building.
Survivors are the widow, Mrs.
Clara Burgess; two brothers, Harvey
H. and Oliver Burgess, of Indian
apolis; his mother, Mrs. Phoebe
Burgess of Newcastle; two daugh-
tiers, Mrs. Edna Scott, Newcastle,
and Mrs. Bernice Edwards, Indian
apolis, and a son, John D. Burgess,
Indianapolis.
Henry L. Overberg, SO, of 615
East Terrace avenue, passenger
conductor on the Illinois Central
Railroad, died Sunday at the Meth
odist hospital following an operation
for acute appendicitis.
Mr.. Overberg was born in st.
Louis, Mo-, and came to Indianapolis
eighteen years ago. He had worked
for the Illinois Central railroad
twenty-seven years, serving as a
conductor for twenty-six years.
Funeral services will be held at
the home Wednesday and burial will
be in Crown Hill cemetery.
Survivors are the widow, Mrs.
Nora Bradbury Overbery; a son,
Bert Overberg, Palestine, ILL.,: a
brother, Albert Overberg, Kokomo; a
sister, Mrs. Henry Alt and his
mother, Mrs. Mary jake, both of
Ef1ngham.
Funeral services for Isaac B. Tay-
Tor, 10, of 3841 North New Jersey
street, will be held at Madison to-
day, with burial in a Madison ceme-
terry. Mr.. Taylor died Saturday at
the Norway sanitarium after an ILL
ness of two years.
Mr.. Taylor was born at La Porte
and went to Madison when a young
man. He founded the. Madison TeIe-
phone Company and was president
of the Madison Coal Company when
he moved to Indianapolis thirty
years ago. In Indianapolis he
founded the Indianapolis Coal Com
paly.
Survivors are son, Harry S. Tay-
lor, Indianapolis; two daughters,
Mrs. Ward H. Dean, Indianapolis,
and Mrs. Henry L. Morgan, Column
bus, O., and three sisters, Mrs. Sue
Collins, New York; Mrs. G. L. Mel
cher, Lexington, KY, and Mrs. Sam
uel Graham, Brady, Tex.
Funeral services were held at 10
this morning for Butler Kennedy
Smith, Sc, West Sixteenth street
and Georgetown road. Burial was
in Crown Hill cemetery.
Mr. Smith was born in Indian
apoliS and lived here all his life. He
served throughout the Civil war in
an Indiana company and following
the war married, III wife, Mrs. Ma
linda Smith, dying n 1922. He was
an active member of the Christian
church and gave freely to church
charities.
Survivors are brother, the Rev.
Walter Scott Smith, Wauchula,
Fla; daughter, Mrs. Myrta Ed
wards, Indianapolis, and a grand
daughter, Mrs. Lillian D. Henton,
Charleston, W. Va.
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