Little Girl Gravestone
From Maple, 2 blocks east on Market, 2 blocks south on Cedar, then ¼ mile east on 1st to Overbrook Cemetery. Vivian Butel was born in 1914 to local dentist Arthur Butel and his wife, Maud. When Vivian was four years old she accidentally took pills that contained strychnine. She died within hours. The family memorialized its daughter with a stone full-length likeness of her. Emanating much symbolism, the stone shows Vivian with one hand on a gate (gateway to heaven), her other hand on a tree stump (life cut short), and at her feet is a broken bud (premature death). Vivian’s stone stands in the south side of the cemetery.