Kay County OK Obit for: Althea (Allen) Butler 
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Submitted to the archives by:Claudia Thiry, workfarm@kskc.net
Date submitted: 3/05/2003 
Obit transcribed from the Newkirk Herald by submitter.
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September 13, 2001

Althea Butler

Funeral services for Althea Bee Butler, 91, were to be held at 11:00 a.m., 
Thursday, Sept. 13, 2001 at the First Christian Church in Pond Creek, OK 
with the Rev. Sherry Shaw. Burial is to be in the Pond Creek Cemetery.

She was born on Nov. 8, 1910 in Lamont, OK to M. E. and Catherine Ward 
Allen and died Sunday, Sept. 9, 2001 in the Ambassador Manor in Tulsa, OK.
 
She lived in Lamont until her parents moved to Pond Creek. She graduated 
from Pond Creek High School in 1928. 

She married Edward A. Butler on March 12, 1935 in Newton, KS. Her husband 
had an insurance agency and sold real estate in Pond Creek. 

In 1951 they moved to Billings, MT. They established the Butler Oil Property 
and engaged in buying and selling oil leases in Canada, North and South 
Dakota and Montana. 

They returned to Pond Creek in 1955.

She began teaching private piano and voice lessons at the age of 16. 

She taught music for over 50 years. At one time she had students in five 
counties in Oklahoma and some in Kansas. 

She was the pianist and choir director at the First Christian Church in 
Pond Creek, Newkirk and Stigler. 

She was also involved in piano and voice competitions for many years.

She is survived by two daughters, Pamela Crosby, Tulsa, OK and Kathy Rogers, 
Manford, OK; one sister, Betty Jean Haley, Peyton, CO; seven grandchildren, 
Kari Engles, Manford, Barbara, Patrick and Jamie Rogers, Denver, CO; Keil 
Cadieux, Tulsa; Lisa Hamil, Tulsa, and Robert Van Dyke, Pond Creek; seven 
great grandchildren, Catherine Gaylor, Peyton and Piper Cadieux, Courtney 
and Tucker Van Dyke, Issac and Avy Hamil. 

She was preceded in death by her husband Ed in July 2001; her brother Lt. 
Ret. Meredith Allen; an infant son and grandson, Issac Henderson Parkey III. 
Memorials may be made for the First Christian Church.

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