OBITUARY: Dorothy Rae Butterfield, 1939-2003, Mitchell Co., Iowa

[Mitchell County Press-News online - Posted July 30, 2003]



                       Dorothy Rae Butterfield


Funeral services were held for Dorothy Rae Butterfield, age 64, of McIntire,
IA on Tuesday, July 29, 2003 at the McIntire United Methodist Church in
McIntire. The Reverend Michael Carey officiated. Burial was in the Wayne
Cemetery, rural McIntire. Dorothy passed away Saturday, July 26 at the
Riceville Community Rest Home in Riceville, IA.

Dorothy Rae was born on July 4, 1939 to Nels and Bessie Howel Espe in
Austin, MN. She attended local schools and graduated from Austin High
School in 1957. Dorothy was united in marriage to Reese Butterfield on
October 26, 1957 in Austin, MN at the Presbyterian Church.

Preceding Dorothy in death were her parents, an infant daughter Anna
Marie on April 17, 1961; three brothers Raymond, Richard, Ernest and
three sisters Anna Bell Peterson, Elizabeth Espe and Donna Marie Espe.

Her survivors include her husband Reese of McIntire; three sons Randy
and his wife Bobbe of McIntire; Mark and his wife Amelia of Elma and
Wade of McIntire. Also surviving are two daughters Becky and her husband
Mark Johnson of Osage and Penny and her husband Mark Heimer of Stacyville,
IA; 13 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren; three brothers Sylvester
Espe and his wife Dorothy of Austin, MN; Leonard Espe and his wife Janet
also of Austin, MN and Paul Espe and his wife Helen of Spring Grove, MN;
two sisters Evangeline Reimann of Cambridge, MN and Alice and her husband
Harold Wiste of Adams, MN.



Copyright 2003, K. Kittleson