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Edward A. Butler
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Edward A. Butler Jr.
Edward A. Butler Jr., 74, of Union City,
Calif. and formerly of Denison, passed away on Wednesday (AM),
26 April 2006, at the Veterans Hospital in Palo Alto,
Calif.
Memorial services are pending in the Bay area of
California.
Born in Denison, Texas in 1931, the son of
the late Edward A. Butler Sr. and Louise Stewart-Butler, and
husband of the late Lee Esther Goolsbee-Butler, he was a multi
sports star of the legendary Terrell High School Dragons in
the late 1940s. Graduating with the class of 1949, he was
inducted in the Denison Alumni Sports Hall of Fame in 2003,
nominated by former Yellow Jacket star and friend, Marvin
Vincent. Ed was also a Founding Member of the Terrell High
School Reunion Committee. An avid fisherman, he could most
likely be found at Lake Texoma/Denison Dam, when he visited on
occasional springs and summers. Ed was truly the “Old Man and
the Lake.”
His parents, wife, three brothers, Eddie,
Jewell, and James, and one sister, Justine, precede him in
death
A Navy veteran of the Korean conflict, and
retired postal and auto parts employee, he is survived by
three sons, Edward III and Theron of Union City, Calif.,
Robert of Los Angeles, Calif.; two daughters, Sylvia of
Dallas, Texas and Nancy of Allen, Texas; one brother, Joel
Butler, Concord, Calif.; five sisters, Doris Austin, Gwendolyn
Watson, Betty Davis, Marquinita Saucier, Oakland, Calif. and
Mary Coleman of Denison.
He also leaves behind a
special friend, Dorothy Jones-Bradley, of Denison. Known as
“lil Ed” by some and “Junior” by most, an era has truly
passed.
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