Mildred Louise Butler
October 22, 1926 ~ March 29, 2003
Resided in:
Asheville, NC
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Asheville - Mildred Louise Johnson Butler, 76, of 82 Overlook Road, died Saturday, March 29, 2003, at Mission - St. Joseph’s Hospital.
Mrs. Butler was a native of Buncombe County and was a daughter of the late Grace Viola Carland Johnson and Lewis Clyde Johnson. She was a member of Mount Zion Baptist Church and retired from Steelcase, Inc. as a quality control inspector.
She is survived by her husband Paul Robert Butler; a daughter, Sandra Kay Butler Huntsinger, and her husband Mike, of Asheville; two sons, Paul Michael Butler, and his wife Myra Lynn, and Robin Wayne Butler, of Asheville; a sister, Betty Elingburg of Hendersonville; two brothers, Earl B. Johnson of Brevard and Jack M. Johnson of Hendersonville; seven grandchildren, Michelle Butler, Katie Huntsinger, Chris Butler, Amanda Butler, Lindsey Huntsinger, Raymond Butler and Amy Butler; and two great grandchildren, Brandon Anderson and Haley Chamberlain.
Services will be held 11:00 a.m. Tuesday at Mount Zion Baptist Church with the Rev. Cecil Robinson officiating. Burial will follow in the Church cemetery.
The family will receive friends from 7 to 9 p.m. Monday at Groce Funeral Home at Lake Julian.
The family would like to express their sincere appreciation to Bill Butler, Jo Ray, Libby Johnson, Dude Fender, and Rosa Dilley for all their help.
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Mama,
I thought you were getting better and coming out of this one, too, but God saw fit to take you on.
I sure wish you were here with me during spring break. OK, I know this can’t compare to up there! So I’ll spend my week sharing pictures of you and hearing more stories about you. You deserve all the beauty and joy and happiness that you now have in heaven, but I miss you badly. I’ll love you forever. Sandra
Paul, Mike, Sandra, and Robin,
I just want each of you to know how much my thoughts were with you during this time. As each of the services began, I lifted each of you in my prayers.
Mildred was always there for my Daddy. Mama loved her like a sister. Mildred’s laugh will live on in our hearts. We can only imagine what heaven is like and the wonderful reunion we will have with those who have gone on before us does truly give us comfort.
I don’t travel well anymore, but hope to see you soon. My prayers are with you.
kathy
Dear Mike, Sandra, Robin, and Paul
I finally got the nerve to visit this web page. Thank you for sharing the greatest lady in the world with me. In 1971 she became my other mother, the grandmother of my children and the best advisor a person could ever have. I went to her with everything and she told me like it was. I pray that I can be half the mother and grandmother to my children as she was to hers. She always treated me just like one of her children and I miss her so much. She is in Heaven receiving the many rewards she earned over the years. She is home. I will carry her with me forever.
Mildred ‘I LOVE YOU, SEE YOU SOON’
Love
Myra
Granny, i don’t have a joke to tell you today. i am sure that you are smiling amyway. it sure is different around here. i never thought that i would experience the day when you would not be here. in high school i always asked God to keep you here until i graduated, he did. then, i asked God to keep you here until i graduated college, he did. every stage of my life i wanted you to be a part of. (don’t worry, i will tell my kids all about you.) i then realized that doing what was best for me wasn’t best for you. it was not in His plans. there is not a day that goes by that i don’t think about you. that would be impossible. i am so glad that God made you the person that you were. i know that i am better for it. you will never know the difference you have made in my life and so many others lives as well. you will never be sick again and i am know that in heaven’s choir you are able to stand and sign and never run out of breath. i love you, katie
You will be missed and were loved by many.
Our thoughts and prayers are with all of you at this time.
Our love and prayers are with you
Thinking of you all
TO PAUL AND FAMILY.
I AM VERY SORRY TO HEAR OF MILDRED PASSING. YOU ALL WILL BE IN MY THOUGHTS. HARLEY
My thoughts and prayers are with you and the family. You will most definately be missed.
Sandra and family,
Our thoughts and prayers are with you during this difficult time.
Tom, Rita, Rachel and Rebecca Gibson
Paul and Family –
Our sincere condolences. Mildred will be missed. You will be in our thoughts and prayers. May God give you strength and peace.
To the Butler Family, I am sorry to hear about Mildred. I send my condolences. I know it is very hard, but stay strong and keep praying. I am out of town and can not be there, but i will come by and see you’ll when i come back into town. Mildred is in a better place, you know that. She was a good lady. May God be with you’ll and stay strong for each other.
Mildred was a great friend and very well liked on top of a ball of fun!! My father and I worked with her at Steelcase many years ago.Our prayers and thoughts are with your family..She will be missed. Our love, Charlie Greer,wife Pansy, and daughter Brenda Greer Wilkie
Dear Paul,
My thoughts, and prayers are with you. One thing I know is that we have the blessed hope of seeing our loved ones again. May God bless you, and comfort you and your family.
Becky West
Matthew and Stephanie
My deepest Sympathy to Paul and Childern. May God’s gentle unseen Hand reach down and craddle each of you with His Love. God Bless You Paul, There’s a Meeting Place ahead for all of us to see our Loved ones again. I’m Thinking what a Wonderful Person Mildred Was in this Life.May God be beside you in this hour.
To Paul and family,Mildred will be missed,She is in a better place now..
My thoughts and prayers are with you, Paul, and your family during this difficult time of loss. Mildred was a truly warm and gracious lady. On the few occasions that I was privileged to be with your family, Mildred’s love for her family was beautiful to see and feel. I know all of you will miss her very much. May the sure promise of the resurrection comfort and sustain you in the coming days.
God bless you!
Marian Van Zant
(friend of Nancy and Helen Johnson)
My thoughts and prayers are with the family during this time of loss. May your memories of good times provide you with solace.
To Paul and Family
My thoughts and prayers are with you during this time of loss. Mildred was a truly wonderful person and we will surely miss her.
Paul and family
My prayers are with you and the family. Mildred was like a second mother to me. She seemed to know the days that I was down and she would call and just say that she had me on her mind and want to know if I just needed to talk. I always knew she was there for me.
Paul and Mildred took me into their home and treated me as one of their own children. The love they showed me and my family over all the years will never be forgotten. No words can express the love I have for them.
I know one day we will be together again.
Love
Carolyn ‘Tincy’ Frady
Granny you were one of a kind I will never forget all that you have done for me and all the great times we had. I will miss you more than words can say and i hope you know how much you meant to me
love chris
We are very sorry for your loss, just know we are thinking of you and your family.