Clara Melia Tucker Butler

Published The Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA) - December 16, 2006
Deceased Name: Butler, Clara Melia "Peaches"
"I have fought the good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith." 2 Timothy 4:7. On Monday, Dec. 11, 2006, at 9:30 a.m., Mrs. Clara Melia Tucker Butler, a native of Greensburg, departed this life at Lane Regional Medical Center in Zachary. She was 93. Visiting was at Richardson Funeral Home, 11816 Jackson St., Clinton, on Friday, Dec. 15, from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Religious service at Pipkin Chapel AME Church in Greensburg on Saturday, Dec. 16, at 1 p.m., the Rev. James Pitts, pastor and the Rev. Dr. Willie G. Johnson officiating. Interment in Clinton Cemetery. She was preceded in death by her husband, Fred Butler Sr.; five children, Mark Butler, Matthew Butler, Wilmeta B. Hutson, Herman R. Butler and Tennessee Butler; and her parents, Calvin Tucker and Merinda Porter Tucker. She is survived by five children and their spouses, Fred Jr. and Georgia Butler, Florena B. and Willie Gene Johnson, Cleon and Annyce Butler, Catherine B. and Charlie Taylor Jr. and Gwendolyn B. and Eldridge Etienne; 23 grandchildren, 29 great-grandchildren and a great-great-grandchild.