Ruth Ann Butt
April 25, 1902-Oct. 29, 1942
Niles Daily Star, Thursday, October 29, 1942, page 2, col. 5, microfilm Niles District Library
MRS. RUTH BUTT STRICKEN TODAY
Mrs. Ruth Ann Butt, 40, died this morning at 2:45 in her home near Barron lake, after an illness of eight months.
A resident of the Niles community since 1938, when the family moved here from South Bend, Mrs. Butt was born April 25, 1902 in Anderson, Ind.
Surviving with her husband, Phillip Butt, are her father, Lemuel Buck, Denver, Ind.; two sons, Phillip Leroy, who is serving with the navy, and Max Wilbur Butt, at home; two brothers, Cecil and Robert Buck, Denver, Ind., and two sisters, Mrs. Helen Young, South Bend, and Miss Marian Buck, Anderson, Ind.
Friends may call at the Pifer funeral home where services will be conducted Saturday afternoon at 2:30. Burial will be in Silverbrook cemetery.