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Jerry Butt
JERRY BUTT
Dows
Jerry "Jake" Butt, 58, of Dows passed away July 11, 2021, at Brio of Johnston.
Funeral services will be Saturday, July 17, at 1 p.m. at St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Alden with burial in Union Cemetery on the family farm southeast of Dows.
Jerry is survived by his parents, Ivan and Velma; his brother, Brian (Nan Boland); his aunts, Alice Heitshusen of Williamsburg, Luella Scott of Mechanicsville, Frances Magdefrau of Belle Plaine and Ruth Noelck of Hampton; and his cousins and their families.
He was preceded in death by his grandparents; his aunt, Martha Lehrman; uncles, Melvin Lehrman, Edgar Heitshusen, John D. Scott, Don Magdefrau, LaVern Meinberg, William Noelck, Franklin Backes and John Butt; and cousins Gayle Lehrman, Dean and Mark Heitshusen and Jan Magdefrau.
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