Extracted from The Morning Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA)
Saturday, November 4, 1967

BUTLER, WAYNE

Died at 8:30 a.m. Friday at Baton Rouge General Hospital. Was 36, a resident of 6760 Hanks Drive, native of Pelican, and was a crane operator for H. E. Weise Construction Co.

Body at Rabenhorst Funeral Home where religious services will be conducted at 2:30 p.m. Sunday by Dr. S. C. Rushing and the Rev. Donald Brown. Burial in Resthaven Gardens of Memory.

Survived by his wife, the former Betty Carpenter; his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Grover C. Butler of Baton Rouge; two sons, Dennis Wayne Butler and Robert Carroll Butler, both of Baton Rouge; two daughters, Misses Donna Jean and Patrician Susan Butler, both of Baton Rouge; one brother, Charles Ray Butler of Baton Rouge.

Member of Istrouma Baptist Church and of the Operating Engineers Local No. 406.

Pallbearers are Lester and H. L. DeBlieux, James Street, Warren Harris, L. R. Cowart and Milton Allen.