Janie Tucker Butler
Published The Times-Picayune (New Orleans,LA) May 15, 1998 Page B3
Janie T. Butler
A homemaker, died Sunday of complications from diabetes at North Oaks Hospital in Hammond. She was 89. Mrs. Butler was a lifelong resident of Greensburg. She was a member of Pipkin Chapel A.M.E. where she was a member of the Women's Missionary Society and Stewardess Board No. 1, and was church secretary for more than 30 years. Survivors include a daughter, Sadie B. Knighten of Greensburg; two sons, Louis Butler of Los Angeles and Truman Butler Sr. of New Orleans; two sisters, Nellie Mae T. Taplin of LaPlace and Clara T. Butler; two brothers, Calvin Butler Jr. of Baton Rouge and Hollis Tucker of Chicago; 25 grandchildren; 18 great-grandchildren; and 21 great-grandchildren. A funeral will be held Saturday at noon at Pipkin Chapel A.M.E. in Greensburg. A wake will be held today from 6 to 9 p.m. at Fraternal Funeral Home in Clinton. Burial will be in the church cemetery.