Extracted from The Shreveport Times (Shreveport, LA)
Monday, February 7, 1949

MRS. LAVINIA D. BUTTER

Forest Hill, Feb. 6 (Special). -- Funeral services for Mrs. Lavinia M. Dunn Butter, 67, a native of Rapides parish and the widow of Henry R. Butter, were held at 11 a.m. Saturday at the First Baptist church here. Burial was in the Butter family cemetery.

Mrs. Butter died Feb. 3 in a Lecompte hospital after a short illness.

She is survived by three sons, Howard R. Butter, Humble, Texas; Dallas F. Butter, Shreveport, and Leo R. Butter, Longview, Texas; four daughters, Mrs. Carl Price, El Dorado, Ark.; Mrs. Hugh McRight, Longleaf, La.; Mrs. Robert Lawson, Orange, Texas; and Mrs. James Denmon, Oak Grove, and 17 grandchildren; her father, James D. Dunn, Forest Hill; two brothers, and six sisters.