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Leona (Mallone) Butcher

February 10, 1899 ~ 1999

Leona Mallone Butcher, 100, Shawnee died Monday at a local hospital.

She was born February 10, 1899, in Celina, Texas, to Simeon and Martha Jane Smith Mallone.

She married Orby Lee "Doc" Butcher October 28, 1922, in Celina, Texas.

She lived in Oklahoma City from 1922 until 1962. She lived in Greeley, Colorado until 1972, then moved to Beaver. From there she moved to the Maguire community east of Noble in 1977. She moved to Shawnee in 1993.

She was a homemaker and a member of the Maguire Baptist Church. She had been a member of the Capitol Hill Baptist Church for about 50 years. She visited homebound people and those in nursing homes.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Simeon Mallone, and her husband, Orby Butcher, on June 15, 1997.

Survivors include her sons and daughters-in-law, Dr. Orby Lee and Betty Butcher, Shawnee; and Johnie M. and Judy Butcher, Denver, Colorado; daughter, Jeannelle Black, Norman; eight grandchildren; nineteen great-grandchildren; sister-in-law, Lexie Rae Mallone, Dallas, Texas; a niece; and other relatives and friends.

Services will be 2:00 p.m. Friday in McMahans Chapel of Prayer with the Rev. Heath Meyer officiating.

Burial will be 11:00 a.m. Saturday in the Cottage Hill Cemetery at Celina, Texas.

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