Dr. Eugene R. Butts
May 1, 1881-June 2, 1963
Niles Daily Star, Monday, June 3, 1963, page 2, col. 4, microfilm Niles District Library
Funeral services for Dr. Eugene R. Butts, 82, of 2600 Walton Road, will be conducted at 2 p.m. Wedneday[sic] in the Pifer Funeral Home. The Rev. John MacLachlan, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, will officiate. Burial will be in Silverbrook Cemetery.
He died at 2 p.m. Sunday in his home. He had been in ill health several years.
Dr. Butts, a retired dentist, was born May 1, 1861, in Niles Township. He was a lifetime resident of this area. He graduated from the Chicago Dental College in 1905.
Survivors include his widow, Ruth; three step-sons, Gerald Gaul, Niles, Roy Gaul, Cassopolis, and Fred Fuller, Chicago; and five grandchildren.
He was a member of the Aaron Blue Lodge No. 913, Order of Free and Accepted Masons, the Medina Shrine Temple of Chicago, the Niles Shrine and the Niles Elks Lodge. He was a life member of the American Dental Association.
Friends are being received at the funeral home.