John Butler passed away on Friday, March 4, 2005 at Lookout Memorial Hospital, surrounded by his wife and sons.
Visitation will be from one to three p.m., Wednesday, March 9, 2005 at the Funeral Home of the Northern Hills in Belle Fourche with the service for family and friends immediately following. Deacon Ray Klein will officiate.
John Butler was born on August 25, 1941 in Brooklyn, New York to Ruth Mulholland Butler and Wilton J. Butler. He grew up in Brooklyn and later moved to New Jersey where he became a mason.
On February 2, 1963 he was united in marriage to Gladys Morgan. They were blessed with two sons, John and Rhett. They moved their family to the Black Hills in 1976 where John was self-employed as a mason in Custer, SD. They raised their sons there. In 1989, he and Gladys moved to Las Vegas, Nevada where he was employed by David Masonry for fifteen years. In June of 2004 they relocated to Belle Fourche to be with their two sons and their families.
John was proud to be known as a master builder. He loved his work and in his spare time enjoyed doing wood working, hunting, spending time with his sons and family, and his dog. He was extremely proud of his Irish heritage.
Grateful for having shared his life are his loving wife; Gladys Butler, his two sons, John and his wife Brenda, Rhett and his wife, Danielle; his four grandchildren, Ashley, Jacob, Brooke and Hunter, all of Belle Fourche; his mother, Ruth Tomaskivic in New Jersey; his sisters, Kathy Davidoff and her husband, Robert & Sally Klazkewiczc and her husband, Joseph, all in Florida and brother, William Butler and his wife, Lucille in New Jersey.
He was preceded in death by his father, Wilton J. Butler in 1945.