Butte in Boyd County, Nebraska — The American Midwest (Upper Plains)

World War Memorial

1917 • 1918

Photographed by William Fischer, Jr., September 17, 2026

1. World War Memorial Marker

Inscription.

In commemoration of the men of Boyd County
who made the supreme sacrifice in the World War

Robert L. Wills • Finn L. Nelson • Frank H. Bergstrom
Frank Joseph Carroll • Lynn Stockwell • Floyd Earl Clute
Karl Schumann • William L. Whidden • Alfred S. Londberg
Emil Anderson • Fred M. Pence • Clarence E. Smith
Arthur S. Thayer • Henry Zimmerle • William F. Wadsworth
Richard Stahlecker • Henry Sibbel

In commemoration of those who gave their services
in the World War from Boyd County

Nurses
Beth Jamison • C. Windmeyer • Elizabeth Kalal

[Veterans]
[Column 1]
Jacob P. Andersen • Joseph V. Rysavy • Charles S. Adams • Earl Alford • Burton N. Arrison • Leonard Bronson • Roy A. Carlson • Frank R. Carter • Alden Chittenden • M. P. Christensen • John J. Dennis • Carl Hansen • Louis Nelson • Howard Crooks • Astor B. Enborg • John E. Toft • Arthur Nygren • Olof M. Bruland • Deward P. Froseth • Ruel A. Gardner • Everett Graves • Kenneth Hoffman • Elmer L. Hooley • Arlington Hoover • Burton G. Hubbard • Clarence Jonas • Julian M. Johnson • Joseph W. Laney • Wilfred G. Petty • George E. Pokorny • Patrick

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H. Scherer • Guy Sherlock • Theodore Sieler • Perry Skelton • Frank Spinar Jr. • Calvin E. Tracy • Roscoe R. Tullis • Corydon Walden • Paul V. Whitehorn • F. T. Anderson • Rudolph Anderson • Lawrence Hewitt • Burton H. Kline • Bert. R. Klise • William D. Langan • Claude O. Lee • Adolph Lihs • Henry W. Trickler • Royal R. Wilson • Homer V. Crooks • James H. Crooks • Michael Crooks • Dean Dorothy • Rudolph Novak • Carl Bergstrom • Lucian L. Cook • Geo. Hendrickson • Lloyd Hoffman • E.W. Lindberg • Donald Hamann • Geo. W. Monson • William T. Alford • Cyrus S. Clyde • Amasa D. Cohee • Joseph Basta • Daniel Hathaway • Vernie C. Irwin • A. J. Sinclair • Albert J. Hamling • Homer Blitzkie • Earl Otto Leist • Emil Prchal

[Column 2]
Thomas E. Harris • Meyer J. Brandvig • Donald V. Fuller • Clayton E Dawson • Carl R. Olson • Peter H. Jurgensen • Vernon W. Strain • Elmer Christensen • Clarence S. Joblom • Clifford A. Lewis • William M. Krikac • Fred A. Laprath • Erick A. Lunden • Frank Paylacky • Ferdinand J. Serr • David H. Jordan • H. Sommerfeldt • Ernest Peterson • Erick A. Schultz • John Peklo • Kenneth

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Photographed by William Fischer, Jr., September 17, 2026

2. World War Memorial Honor Roll of Veterans

On back of monument

M. McMeen • Wayne T. Rere • Joe Scheinost • Ary Owen Gardner • Harker J. Ware • Gustav Keen • Jay T. Nicholls • E. J. Storjohann • Vern A. Cranford • Clyde O. Nilson • Ephraim J. Kidd • Fred E. Wakefield • Emil G. Kellerman • Ivan S. Porter • Frank E. Hathaway • Vernon Ingram • Joseph J. Connot • Peter Arends • Irvin E. Schultz • Roger S. Olmsted • Oren Hibbs • Ashley N. Romans • Wm. H. Mahlendorf • Steven R. Kreycik • George J. Kreycik • Carl C. Hannah • Carl A. Anderson • Park Earl Trimble • Jay Floyd Barnes • Ralph Lenger • Carl Carlson • Guy C. Thatcher • Henry L. Aiken • Herman Andersen • John R. Beatty • Dean C. Cook • Cyril L. Coombs • Reuben B. Crose Jr. • Victor Gustafson • Guy B. Ira • Frank C. Couer • Carl Poteekloke • R. E. Kriz • John L. Limburg • Roland Hewitt • Albert Dalldorf • Keith Mowrer • John Adams • Julius Waechler • Henry Hajek • Charles Vlcek • J. E. Waskowiak • Heinie L. Tienken • Benjamin E. Hale • Bayard D. Edwards • Arthur Ficenec • George Lee Lewis

[Column 3]
William Veich • Frank J. Hromek • Benj, Clausen • Stanley A. Jerman • Carl Waechter • Andrew Hafsaas •

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3. World War Memorial

Theodore Hinrichs • Guy Melsha • Jesse Clausen • John J. Gilligan • Harry S. Vance • George C. Schemm • Paul Weber • Guy W. Mulhair • Lynn A Woods • Frank R. Bessert • Earl W. Leudke • Abraham Mayer • Anton Hambeck Jr. • Thomas Zidko • Edward C. Clausen • John Sedlacek Jr. • William E. Park • Herman Woidneck • Charles Carroll • Charles Whetham • Vaclav Charvat • Glenn R. Davy • Frank Kalal • James Muller • Edwin Nordgren • Martin Zeisler • Otto T. Claassen • Andrew J. B. Vlcan • Milton R. Breeden • Frank Fisher • Orva Jones • Irvin Armfield • Frank Plattner • David J. Langan • Eddie V. Mulhair • Frank T. Post • Frank Reichert • Victor V. Peklo • Herbert Dahlgren • Roy W. Bohnes • G. Herrmann • Allen Lee • Warren W. Mark • M. R. Logerwell • Frank O. Lewis • Lloyd V. Spencer • Edward Nowak • Earl Blair • Emra S. Counts • Fritz Weibel • Charles Putnam • Glenn J. Criss • Frank C. Couch • Chas. E. Bartlett • Geo. D. Sanders • Lowery D. Monson • Glen W. Simonds • Harry D. Hurless • John C. Whitehorn • Bernard Looker • Alton V. Fitch • Gustav A. Sieler • Willis S. Couch • Lyman T. Wills • Edward

Photographed by William Fischer, Jr., September 17, 2026

4. World War Memorial

Wiley • William Wiley • Art. Schumann • H. L. Dirking • John Fitzgerald

[Column 4]
Bert Gross • A. B. Wallace • George O. Leach • Mads D. Nielson • Clem Christensen • William B. Tienken • Henry W. Anderson • Carl H. Black • Claud A. Blair • John Blue Bird • Willie Christman • Walter M. Coen • Michael E. Coleman • William H. Coleman • Carl L. Cunningham • John H. Davies • Elmer W. Farlin • Virgil Farlin • John J. Fernau • Frank Fischer • Merrill G. Foltz • John A. Ford • Henry Hagberg • Jerry Laukota • George F. Hotaling • William B. Kirwan • Austin W. Johnson • August D. Kalal • Edward L. Kimball • Edwin D. Korab • Otto H. Smith • Sylvester Kramer • Sylvenus D. Legge • Willie Matejicek • Samuel Noring • Edward J. Norwood • Frank Parker • C. J. E. Landholm • Archie Pearsall • Louis J. Pucelik • Ruel D. Reber • Wayne T. Rice • Carl A. Rosane • Arthur S. Ross • Louis H. Sedlacek • Martin J. Specht • Lindley Spicknall • Denzil R. Stevenson • John Thiel • James P. Yocum • Edward Zimbelman • Henry Zimbelman • John R. Sedlacek • John Fuhrer • Rudolph Sherer • M. Marcus Nelson • John B. Prokesh •

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Jay Holbert • G. O. Van Meter • Algoth B. Paulsen • William A. Mott • Lee Brown • Elven Krause • Carl Wm. Stumer • George Thompson • E. A. Haas • William A. Pelc • Homer Grimm • A. A. Stewart • Theodore Scherer • William Clausen • Ernest Coleman • Ernest Simons • Clyde Gentzler • James Meteer • Earl Gallop

[Column 5]
C. Fitzgerald • John H. Russel • Merril Foster • Leon Jedlicka • Emil Kalal • George Jugler • Art. Dawson • Hugh Glaze • Harry Mahlendorf • A. L. Hollstein • Elmer G. Hypse • Walter Racely • Wm. Leroy Benedict • Wm. Earl McMillin • John Schock • Christ Zeidner • Henry Sanders • E. J. Tishendorf • Arthur J. Londberg • Philip I. Renner • William J. Edwards • James Zidko • Joseph Turecek • Eldred L. Fernan • Raymond E. Davy • Sidney J. Baker • Albert E. Loock • James W. Myers • John Scott Gray • Chris J. Storm • August Petersen • Melvin W. Jacoby • John G. Hoffmann • Darlles Sandberg • Fredk. A. Volberding • Henry J. Bohac • James Holoubek • Roy H. Ashby • Ernest A. Chore • Jess Earl Hoyt • Roy West Edwards • John U. Connot • Arthur R. Johnson • Herbert Fuhrer • William B. Tienken • Roy A. Rosengren • John Wm. Higgins • Gustaf Gustafson • Paul Landholm • Ray Wanderson • Chester R. Derry • William H Hotaling • Peter A. Juel • G. W. Laudenslager • Jacob E. Spahn • Clyde Beckner • Van Curtis Strait • Charley Karel • Evert E. Janssen • Irving W. Fobair • Arthur C. Boline • Arthur L. Audiss • John A. Frederickson • Samuel Allshouse • John Folkers • Albert T. Spencer • Harry L. Greene • Harry B. Strain • Bill King • Reuben G. Hypse • Thomas Thomsen • Edmund Davies • Harry Hurless • Edwin Pasen • Robert Stufft • Jerome M. Pucelik

Erected by Boyd County and the American Legion.

Topics. This memorial is listed in these topic lists: Patriots & Patriotism • War, World I.

Location. 42° 54.694′ N, 98° 50.929′ W. Memorial is in Butte, Nebraska, in Boyd County. It is on Thayer Street north of Butte Street, on the right when traveling north. Memorial is on the Boyd County Courthouse grounds. Touch for map. Memorial is at or near this postal address: 401 Thayer Street, Butte NE 68722, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is in Eastern Nebraska and in the Niobrara Valley.

It is also in the American Midwest,

in the Corn Belt,

and on the prairies.

Globally, it is in North America,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once the Louisiana Purchase.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 12 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Butte Centennial Park (about 700 feet away, measured in a direct line); Marvin and Alice Humpal (approx. 0.2 miles away); Bethlehem German Congregational Church (approx. 7.2 miles away in South Dakota); Elwin W. "Smoke" Reed (approx. 7.9 miles away); Veterans Memorial (approx. 7.9 miles away); Fairfax Veterans Memorial (approx. 8.3 miles away in South Dakota); Fairfax Fire Bell (approx. 8.3 miles away in South Dakota); Battle of Bonesteel (approx. 12.1 miles away in South Dakota). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Butte.

Credits. This page was last revised on September 29, 2026. It was originally submitted on September 28, 2026, by William Fischer, Jr. of Reynoldsburg, Ohio. This page has been viewed 8 times since then. Photos: 1, 2, 3, 4. submitted on September 28, 2026, by William Fischer, Jr. of Reynoldsburg, Ohio.