Mary Evelyn Reeves (Mrs. Hubert S.) Butts
A homemaker and native of Dallas Texas, she died Tuesday, May 15,
2012, at age 86. Visiting at Rabenhorst Funeral Home on Thursday, May
17, from 10:30 a.m. until service at noon. Interment in
Farmers Branch Cemetery,
Dallas, Texas. Survived by two daughters and sons-in-law, Nancy and John
Ganci, of Plano, Texas, and Janet and David Daniel, of Baton Rouge; son
and daughter-in-law, Michael and Barbara Butts, Austin, Texas;
grandchildren, Mary Rose Daniel, New York, John and Arleen Daniel,
Silver Spring, Md., Lindsey and Scott Hoffeins, Austin, Kristin and Mike
Fligg, Honolulu, and Marshall Butts, Austin; and four
great-grandchildren. Preceded in death by her husband of 52 years,
Hubert S. Butts, and her parents, A. C. and Virgie Good Reeves. She
graduated from Ardmore High School and North Texas State College, and
worked at the Shepard Air Force Base hospital during the war. She
married Hubert Butts on April 5, 1947, and moved to Baton Rouge when he
joined the faculty at LSU in 1953. She was a longtime member of the LSU
Campus Club, the Womans Club, and Chapter AC of PEO. Pallbearers will be
John Daniel, Judge Louis Daniel, Jeff Albright, M. D. Socolofsky, Brad
Townsend, and Cliff Townsend. The family wishes to thank her caregivers,
Geraldine Duhart and Grace Johnson, and the wonderful doctors and nurses
at the Baton Rouge General Bluebonnet ICU. Memorial donations may be
made to the LSU Campus Club Scholarship Fund, c/o the LSU Foundation,
3838 W. Lakeshore Drive, Baton Rouge, LA, 70808. |