Robin Butts

Published 12:00 am Tuesday, March 24, 2009

FERRIDAY — Services for Robin Harris Butts, 86, of Waterproof, who died Saturday, March 21, 2009, at her home on Helena Plantation in Waterproof, will be at 11 a.m. today at Young’s Funeral Home Chapel, in Ferriday, with the Rev. Dave Sheehun officiating.
Burial will follow at the Natchez City Cemetery under the direction of Young’s Funeral Home in Ferriday.
Mrs. Butts was born July 4, 1922, in Memphis, Tenn., the daughter of the Dr. and Mrs. Robin Harris of Jackson. She was married to Henry Fowler Butts. She graduated from Charleston High School in Mississippi before attending Copiah-Lincoln Community College. She graduated with majors in chemistry and bacteriology from Mississippi State University, where she was also a member of the Maroon Band and the Chi Omega Sorority.
Prior to working as a medical technologist at the New Orleans Ochsner Clinic, Mrs. Butts completed a medical technology internship at Street-Mercy Hospital. She was always a supporter of young people through the Boy Scouts, 4-H Club, Children of the American Revolution and serving as a girls’ softball coach. She was a lifetime member of the Waterproof High School Quarterback Club, a member of the Tensas Academy Athletic Association and a member of the Presbyterian Church where she served as an elder. Mrs. Butts was a charter member of the Bruin-Vidal Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, holding several offices including State Treasurer, State Regent, National Vice Chairman of Conservation, Reporter General to the National Society of Daughter of American Revolution and National Chairman of Insignia. She was an avid conservationist, having won the National Daughter of the American Revolution Conservationist Award and loved all forms of sports and wildlife.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; and two brothers, Dr. Jeff Harris and Richard Harris.
Survivors include one son, Ed Butts and wife, Bernadette, both of Fairfield, Conn.; one daughter, Ann Burns and husband, Dennis, both of Waterproof; two granddaughters, Robin Rae Burns of Clinton and Libbi Calloway and husband, Ryan, both of Little Rock, Ark.; and three sisters, Fisher Kortz of British Columbia, Nancy Ann Harris and Harley Williams and husband, Jon, all of Annapolis, Md.
Pallbearers will be Lucas Harris, James Lentz, James Clower, Bobby James, Darrell VandeVen, Don Magee Jr., Bryant Killen and Tru Goldman.
Memorials may be made to Tensas Academy and Wesley Chapel.