Submitted by 
Sue Hearon, 2002-03
Sue & Earl's Web

Photos and information courtesy of Diane (Butler) Coke

Marvin Leonard and Bertha (Ferguson) Butler were life-long residents of the Williams, Oklahoma, area. Marvin was born in Lexington, Tennessee on September 25, 1889, and died on August 29, 1965. Bertha was born on October 30, 1894, in Indian Territory, Oklahoma, and passed away on August 9, 1971. Both are buried in the Green Hill Cemetery near Cameron, Oklahoma.

They were married on June 21, 1910, and had seven children.

Their five surviving children, their spouses, and some of their children are pictured here beside their home place in Tahona some time in the mid-1950's. First Row: Nicky Burton, Bertha Butler, Marvin Butler, Brenda Butler. Second Row: Hershel Prock, Dorothy Prock, Jack Sadler, Inez Sadler, Neal Prock, Marvine Burton, Bob Burton, Freada Butler, Jim Perry Butler, Melba Peek, Curtis Peek. Top Row: Ginger Peek and Diane Butler. 

James P. "Jim Perry" Butler 

Funeral services were held at 10:00 a.m., on August 23, 1975, for Jim Perry Butler. Reverend F. L. Baker, pastor, officiated at the services in the Panama Assembly of God Church in Panama, Oklahoma. Mr. Butler was born May 25, 1923, at Williams, Oklahoma, and died August 20, 1975, at Sparks Regional Medical Center in Fort Smith, Arkansas, from complications following surgery.

He was a veteran of World War II, serving in Sicily and North Africa. On November 6, 1946, he married Freada Standfield at Fort Smith, Arkansas. For many years he worked in the oil fields near Lindsay, Oklahoma, and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. During the last several years of his life, he had farmed and ranched in the Shady Point, Oklahoma, area.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Marvin L. Butler and Bertha (Ferguson) Butler, of Tahona, Oklahoma.

Surviving are his wife, Freada, of Shady Point; two daughters and sons-in-law, Diane and Paul Coke of Alluwe, Oklahoma, and Brenda and Robert Bradley of Lawton, Oklahoma; four sisters, Inez Sadler and Dorothy Prock of Tahona, Oklahoma, Melba Peek of Panama, Oklahoma, and Marvene Burton of Enid, Oklahoma ; five grandchildren, Brian Perry Small, Harry Christopher Small III, Gregory Todd Coke, Robert Sean Bradley, and Dawn Diane Bradley; several nieces and nephews, and a host of other relatives and friends.

Pallbearers were Cecil Bledsoe, Gene Davlin, Dolphis Fout, Lester Hood, Buck Archey, and Jim Scroggins.

Burial was in Green Hill Cemetery, Cameron, Oklahoma, under the direction of Evans Funeral Home, Poteau, Oklahoma.