U. S. Army veteran James Reuben Butts of Shawnee died Friday in a local hospital after a short battle with cancer. He was 64.

Mr. Butts was born March 18, 1933, in Emmett, Kansas, the son of Reuben A. and Bernice A. Butts.

He received his GED from Texas and later worked for Holt Motor Company in Oklahoma City.

James was retired from the Irving, Texas, independent schools. He was also co-owner of B&W Truck Sales in Dallas, Texas, and owner of Butts Truck Sales in Irving, Texas.

He served in Korea and Greenland with the U. S. Army.

On September 18, 1970, he married Mary Ann Smith in Dallas, Texas.

He was a member of the Siloam Masonic Lodge, American Rifleman's Association and the North Irving Baptist Church in Texas.

Survivors include his wife, Mary Ann Butts of the home; son, Tony Lee Butts of Dallas, Texas; mother, Bernice A. Butts of Shawnee; four sisters and two brothers-in-law, Mary and Myler "Mike" Crooks of Shawnee; Rosa and George Meneely of Shawnee; Verna Dean of Shawnee; and Alma Butts of Ellicott City, Maryland; a brother, Bill Butts of Shawnee; and his father-in-law, Richard L. Smith of Shawnee.

Preceding him in death were his father, Richard Archibald Butts and two brothers, Clinton Archibald Butts and John Leroy Butts.

The family has designated Hospice of Shawnee as appropriate for memorials.

Services will be 2:00 p.m. Monday at Roesch-Walker Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Chuck Utsler and the Rev. Bill Matthews officiating.

Burial will be in Blackburn Chapel Cemetery.