Obituary Record

Mildred M (Utermann) Butterfield
Died on 5/8/1997
Buried in Kennard Cemetery

Butterfield, Mildred M.(Utermann), 84

Died 8 May 1997

Burial in Kennard Cemetery

Date and place of publication of this article were not recorded

Mildred M. Butterfield, 84, of Arlington died Thursday, May 8, 1977 at St. Francis Memorial Hospital in West Point, Nebr.

Services were Monday, May 12 at the Arlington Community Church. Rev. Lee J. Milligan officiated. Burial was in the Kennard Cemetery.

Butterfield was born May 18, 1912 at Blair. She attended Midland College in Fremont during the summers. She taught school for three years in a rural Dodge County school northwest of Fremont and worked for several years at the former Cornhusker Grocery Store in Fremont. On May 29, 1932, she married Roy W. Butterfield. She moved to California in 1941, worked for Southern Pacific Railroad and then Bank of America as a bookkeeper while living in Petaluma. She moved to Arlington in 1976.

She was a member of Arlington Community Church and the United Church of Christ Women. She had served on the Arlington Library Board.

Survivors are four sisters, Wilma Plugge and Helena Jensen, both of Arlington; Dorothy Plugge of Blair and Verna Helmsing of Foristell, M.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Henry and Carrie (Schultz) Utermann; her husband, who died July 15, 1975 and a sister, Carrie Rosenbaum.

Pallbearers were Lloyd Petersen, Warren Jensen, Robert Plugge, Nate Plugge, Ronnie Rosenbaum and Leland Vogt.

Memorials may be given to the Arlington Community Church or the Arlington Library.

Reckmeyer-Moser Funeral Home in Arlington was in charge of arrangements.

~~~ Obituary courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair Public Library at Blair, Nebraska.~~~

Find a Grave # 26239364

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