Buttry, Paul David

Captain Buttry, a lifelong resident of Miami before entering the Air Force 12 years ago, died Friday evening in the crash of a jet plane in Louisiana. He was 32 years old. The career airman was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Goldie Buttry, who lived at 122 A street northeast, Miami. details of the crash were not immediately reported by Air Force authorities but it was learned that Buttry crashed while delivering a jet from the Charleston South Carolina Airbase to San Francisco California. He was stationed at Charleston. Buttry enlisted in the Air Force as a cadet in 1943 and served as a pilot through the remainder of World War II. He also was in the Korean Conflict, flying 102 missions. Surviving, besides the parents, are his wife, Lorene Buttry and a daughter, Danna Jean Buttry of the home in Charleston and a sister, Mrs. Doris Jane Haire, of Yonkers New York. Captain Buttry was a member of the First Christian church of Miami. the body will be returned to Miami for funeral services and burial, which will be under direction of the Cooper mortuary.

Burial in the G.A.R. cemetery at Miami.