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Submitted: 10/19/16 • Approved: 10/21/16 • Last Updated: 10/24/16 • R1158169-G0-S3
Sept 10, 1949 - May 8, 2000
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James Earl Butler, 59, of Little Rock, a Conway native, died Monday (May 8, 2000) at Baptist Medical Center.
Born Sept. 10, 1940, in Conway, a son of John Elmer and Elsie Lieblong Butler, he was the former executive director of the Arkansas Easter Seal Society. He graduated from Little Rock Central High School in 1958 and the University of Central Arkansas in 1962. He taught at Prattsville (Grant County) and at Sunnyside High School in Washington. Butler was director of the Tongue Point Job Corps Center in Oregon. After receiving a master's degree in 1967, he became assistant director of the Learning Lab for Diagnosis and Remediation of Learning Disorders in Pocatello, Idaho. He was assistant director of the Jenkins Children's Center in Pine Bluff, and directed the Upward Bound and Special Services programs at Utah State University in Logan. Butler returned to Arkansas to be regional representative supervisor of Developmental Disabilities Services. After retiring from the Easter Seal Society, he became an active member of the Arkansas Knife Makers Association.
Funeral services will be 2 p.m. Saturday at First Christian Church in Little Rock with Dick Cobb officiating. Burial will be in Oak Grove Cemetery in Conway by Roller-Chenal Funeral Home of Little Rock.
Visitation will be 6 to 8 p.m. Friday at the funeral home.
Parents:
John Elmer Butler (1913 - 1947)
Elsie Lieblong Butler (1910 - 1989)
Sibling:
John Edward Butler (1939 - 1996)
James Earl Butler (1940 - 2000)
Contributed on 10/19/16 by hawkinsdonna
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