Margaret Ellen Butler
(August 19, 1926 - September 2, 2013)

Margaret Ellen Butler 87 of Glenwood, WV passed away Monday September 2, 2013 after a long illness. She was born August 19, 1926 in Charleston, WV, lived in Smithers, WV and attended Oakland Grade School. For health reasons she was sent to live with her Aunt Jean and Uncle Henry Garnett on a farm near Ashland, VA. She graduated from Montpelier High School, Ashland, Virginia, in 1943, and attended Mary Washington College in Fredricksburg, Virginia in 1944. She contributed to the war effort in 1944 by working as a crypto analyst in Washington, DC. She was a Cadet Nurse at Laird Hospital in Montgomery, WV. She married Charles Aubrey Butler on November 3, 1945 and they were married 63 years before his passing in 2009. She worked as an LPN prior to returning to Charleston General Hospital School of Nursing in 1960 as the first married student admitted to that school and the first student not to live in the nurse’s dormitory. After graduating with honors, she was employed by the Veterans Administration Hospital in Huntington, WV. She served as secretary for district 9 of the West Virginia Nurses Association, and was a member of the American Red Cross. The last 15 years of her nursing career were at Pleasant Valley Hospital, Point Pleasant WV, on the pediatric floor. Upon retirement, Margaret and Charles traveled for ten years in their motor home. She is survived by four children, BG (ret) Terry Butler and his wife Susan, of The Villages, FL, and London, Ontario; Richard Butler of Glenwood, WV and Jacksonville, FL; Marsha Williams and her husband Mark, of Huntington, WV; and CMSgt. Charles Christopher Butler of Glenwood, WV, seven grandchildren, Terry Lynn Butler, Samantha Butler Ashworth, Alexandra Butler, Dianne Butler, Suanne Butler Beck, Richard A. Butler, and Michael Mattison; ten great grandchildren, and five special friends, Karen Branch, Tabitha Duncan, Luann Holley, Jan Hall, and John Williams. She will be greatly missed by her companion cat, Tinker. She was preceded in death by her husband, Charles Aubrey Butler, her mother and father, William Goodridge and Virginia Fyfe Daniel, and her sister, Virginia Mae Daniel Tomasik; and one granddaughter, Carrie Ann Butler. Funeral services will be conducted at noon Wednesday, September 4, 2013, at Chapman’s Mortuary, Huntington, with Dr. David B. Lemming officiating. Burial will be in White Chapel Memorial Gardens, Barboursville, WV. Visitation will be from 10:00 am until noon Wednesday at the funeral home.