THE SOUTH BEND TRIBUNE
South Bend, Indiana
Saturday, June 16, 1990


Gene Butterfield 

NILES – Services for Gene Butterfield, 67, of Bunnell, Fla., formerly of Niles, who died Tuesday in Veterans Hospital, Tampa, Fla., will be at 11 a.m. today in Craig Funeral Home in Bunnell, Burial will be in Flagler Palms Memorial Gardens. 

Mr. Butterfield had formerly worked for Studebaker Corp. and had been a maintenance engineer for Flagler Hospital in St. Augustine, Fla. Born April 12, 1923, in Marion, Ind. He had lived in Florida for the last 20 years, moving there from Niles. In 1942, he married the former Lola Hahn, who survives. 

Also surviving are a son, Dennis of Glendora, Calif.; two granddaughters; and a sister, Wanda Mapel of Kentwood, Mich. 

He was a member of Bunnell First Baptist Church and DAV Post 86, Jim Booe Chapter. He was a World War II Army veteran.