Obituaries,  sent to the Butler County, Missouri MOGenWEb,  web site/ via e-mail.
These obits are not neccessarly the death date.
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Thursday ,8 June 1978
CRAFT - Velta Craft Shorter, 62, widow of Henry Booth Shorter, died Wednesday at
Sumter. Born in Poplar Bluff, Mo., she was d/o William & Ida Mae Becker
Craft.
Survivors: son H.B. Shorter, Jr.; 2 daughters.- Mrs. James (Frances)
Russell & Mrs. James (Diane) McLeod; 3 brotherss.- L. D., C. W. & Billy Joe
Craft; sister Mrs. J. M. (Ruth) Shorter.
Buried Sumter Cemetery, Sumter, SC.
Dee Schmidt <deeken@cpis.net
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Arpil 16, 1936
VAUGHN - Susie Vaughn
Mrs. Susie Vaughn, blind pensioner here for several years, died at her
home on Lexington Ave yesterday at 10 am.  Surviving is one great-
nephew, James Perdue of Poplar Bluff.
Funeral services will be held this afternoon at 3:30 at the City Cemetery.
Frank Service
JJ <psyko@oz-online.net
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 BURK, Benjamin F. 
 QULIN - Benjamin Franklin "Ben" Burk, 78, of Qulin died on Monday, Aug. 7,
 2000, at the St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau.
 
 Mr. Burk was born on Nov. 28, 1921, in Hollywood, Mo. He was a farmer and a
 member of the Church of Christ.
 On Aug. 14, 1949, he married Mary Beebe; she survives.
 
 Also surviving are two sons, Ron Burk of Waterloo, Iowa, and Mike Burk of
 Qulin; one daughter, Nancy Rodgers of Georgetown, Texas; one brother,
 Herbert Burk of Flint, Mich.; three sisters, Freida Farrell of Dallas,
 Texas, Mary Branum of Hollywood, Mo., and Betty Maxwell of Cardwell; nine
 grandchildren; 17 great-grandchildren; and two great great-grandchildren.
 
 Visitation will begin at 6 p.m. on Thursday at the White-Sanders Funeral
 Home in Qulin. The funeral service will be at 10 a.m. on Friday at the
 funeral home with the Bro. Homer Maxwell officiating. Burial will be at the
 Qulin Cemetery.
 
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