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Mrs. Belinda [Julia Butler] Darrah Willis, a
life-long Seymour resident, died at the Wilson Nursing home in Corydon [Wayne
county, Iowa] Tuesday morning [31 July 1956].
She had been in failing health for several years and had been a patient
at the Wayne county hospital and Dustin nursing home here.
Rites for Mrs. Willis, 87, were to be
Thursday, today, at 2 o’clock at the Seymour Methodist church with the Rev. J.
C. Turner officiating. Mrs. Willis had
been a life member of the church. Burial
will be at Southlawn cemetery.
Born [3 January 1869] east of Seymour
[daughter of Paschal T. Butler and Lucintha Jane Morlan], she had lived in this
community and was a member of the Rebekah lodge ad American Legion Auxiliary
and past president of both.
Her survivors are two sons, Roy Darrah of
Seymour and Fred Darrah of Emmetsburg; three brothers, Jess Butler of Des
Moines, and Ace and Lafe Butler of Seymour; and two sisters, Emma Hiatt of Centerville
and Verna Johnson of Silvis, Ill.
There are seven grandchildren and 11
great-grandchildren.
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