Berrien County GaArchives Obituaries.....Butler, Richard Nash "Buck" September 16, 2009
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The Berrien Press - September 23, 2009
  Richard Nash "Buck" Butler, 80, of Nashville, died Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2009, a
at Berrien County Hospital. 
 He was born the last of 13 children to the late John Washington Butler and the 
late Mary Irene Hutchenson Butler on Feb. 2, 1929, in TyTy, Ga. He went through 
the Tift County School System and graduated in 1946. He loved football and 
played for the Tift County Blue Devils. After graduation, he attended Georgia 
Military College where he played football. He left Georgia Military College and 
traveled to New Orleans to try out for a semi-pro team. He served two years in t
the U.S. Navy before going to work with Georgia Power in Tifton in 1949. He w
worked as a lineman and serviceman in LaGrange, Waycross, Jesup, Donaldsonville a
and Blackshear. He became a local manager in Douglas, as well as Homerville, O
Ocilla and Nashville, where he retired in 1987. 
 Buck was very proud of his 38-year career with the Georgia Power Co. Besides h
his family, his loves were fishing, hunting, camping and playing golf. 
 He is survived by his wife, Joyce Whiddon Butler of Nashville; two sons, Stan 
(Kathy) Butler of Nashville and Russ (Twila) Butler of Jackson, Ga.; sister, 
Mary Arthur of Jacksonville, Fla.; brother-in-law, Ordway (Lil) Whiddon of Lake 
City, Fla.; four grandchildren, Kayla (Rob) Osborne, Derek Butler, David 
Butler, and Daniel Butler; three great-grandchildren; and many nieces and ne
nephews. He attended Nashville First Baptist Church (Ecclesiastes Chapter 3). 
 Funeral services will be held at 4 p.m., Friday, Sept. 18, 2009, in the chapel o
of Lovein Funeral Home with the Rev. Billy Southerland and the Rev. Stanley L
Luke officiating, "One Day At a Time" was played on CD.
 Interment will follow in Oak Ridge Cemetery in Tifton. Visitation will be from 
7-9 p.m. today. 
  Pallbearers were Carroll Craven, Frank O'Quinn, John Carroll, Heyward Wh
Whiddon, David Butler, Derek Butler, Raleigh Bailey.
 Lovein Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.


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