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Samuel Butler Dies; Founded Funeral Home

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19981108
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Samuel Washington "Bossman" Butler Sr., 78, who founded what became the Sam Butler Inc. Funeral Service in 1944 and remained active in the business until his death, died Nov. 5 at his Washington home after a heart attack.

He had been in semi-retirement since having a stroke seven years ago.

Mr. Butler, who was born in Orlando, was a mortuary science graduate of Florida Memorial College in Live Oak, Fla. He came to Washington in the mid-1940s. Before starting his own funeral home, he interned and worked as an embalmer and manager for Johnson & Jenkins and McGuire funeral homes in ...

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