----Source: Tribune-Record-Gleaner (Clark County, Wis.) 02/04/1981

BUTCHER REESE CROSS KAVECKAS

Butcher, Emma Reese (1891 - 1981)

Emma Reese Butcher died on Tuesday, Jan. 20, 1981, at the age of 89, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Jean Kaveckas in Chicago, where she had made her home.

She was born Sept. 18, 1891, at Ridgeway, Wis. She graduated from Dodgeville high School and attended Platteville Teacher's College. She taught school in Wisconsin and South Dakota, later working as a stenographer in Eau Claire until her marriage to Lucian S. Butcher in Willard, Clark County on Nov. 8, 1919, where they operated a saw mill and later a garage. They had two children, Iris Jane and James Stephan.

In 1949, they moved to Arizona, where her husband died at Bull Hood City in 1953.

She was a member of the Greenwood American Legion Auxiliary.

Survivors are her daughter, Jane, and son, James three grandchildren six great-grandchildren and many nieces and nephews a brother, David H. Reese of Greenwood two sisters, Mrs. Henrietta R. Cross of Dodgeville and Miss Lulu M. Reese of Greenwood.

One brother and three sisters are deceased.

The remains were cremated and interment will be in the Reese family lot in the Greenwood Cemetery.