FOURTH GENERATION

35. Stella Martha DePollo was born on 25 Mar 1917 in Thomas, West Virginia. She died on 30 Jun 1972 in Washington, D.C..

She was married to John Franklin Butler (son of Otto Butler and Catherine Lamatina Cronin) on 5 Feb 1942 in Baltimore, Maryland. John Franklin Butler was born on 2 Nov 1917 in Stubenville, OHIO. He died on 10 Sep 1962 in Washington, D.C.. John F. Butler was a newsman and press agent, a police reporter for the Times Herald, a newsman for radio station WWDC and a correspondent for United Press International. He moved from Stubenville, Ohio to Washington D.C. in 1937 as a part time student & employee of Providence Hospital. After WWII he worked as a
free-lance press agent for local television personalities and Washington businessmen. He later specialized in reporting news of the Korean War for radio station WWDC. He was a member of the National Press Club, The American Newspaper Guild, a partner in Rite-Way Cleaners and a member of the Church of the Assumption of Washington, D.C. Stella Martha DePollo was married to John Franklin Butler on the 5th of February 1942 at the Cathedral of the Assumption, 408 N. Charles St. Baltimore, Maryland. She worked as a nurse at Providence Hospital. Although her Death Certificate, Marriage License, Marriage Certificate and obituary notices list her name as Martha M. (DePollo) Butler, but her Birth Certificate and the Registry of Births (Tucker County, WVA) list her given name as Stella Martha DePollo. Stella Martha DePollo and John Franklin Butler had the following children:

+96 i. Janice Kathleen Butler.
+97 ii. Jacqueline Sue Butler.
+98 iii. Judith Maureena Butler.
+99 iv. Marja Ann Butler.
100 v. John Anthony Butler was born on 1 Apr 1959. He died on 26 Nov 1987 in Paris, France.

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