Howard Lewis Butcher

BUTCHER, OLSON, GOETZE, MEYER, WILSON, JENKINS, GATICA, NEIER, FLORES, TAYLOR, NITTINGER, CURRAN

Posted By: Tara (email)
Date: 11/12/2012 at 09:39:19

Howard Lewis Butcher, 93,husband of Elise T.Butcher, died Tuesday, October 23, 2012 at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Iowa City.

Burial will be in the Rock Island National Cemetery, Rock Island, Illinois.
Howard was born October 4, 1919 in Camden, New Jersey, the son of Howard Winfield & Olivine (Olson) Butcher. Howard served for 24 years in the US Army and retired at the rank of Chief Warrant Officer 4. He was united in marriage to Elise Goetze Meyer on May 16, 1953 in Heidelberg, Germany. After living in Fayetteville, North Carolina for over 30 years, Howard and his wife moved to Iowa City in August of this year to be near family.

Survivors include his wife Elise of Iowa City; children Inge Wilson of Alamogordo, New Mexico, Renate Jenkins of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Howard K. Butcher of Iowa City and Anita Gatica of Sierra Vista, Arizona and his grandchildren, Ben Jenkins of Charlotte, NC, Michelle Neier of Fayetteville, NC, Andrea Gatica Flores of Sierra Vista, and Nyah Taylor-Butcher of Iowa City, and three great children.

He was preceded in death by his parents Howard W. Butcher and Marie Josephine Olson and two sisters, Dorothy Nittinger and Lillian Curran.

The family wishes to extend their deepest gratitude to all the staff at Heartfield’s Assisted Living in Cary, North Carolina, Legacy Senior Living Community in Iowa City, and all the medical and nursing staff on 7W at the Iowa City Veterans Administration Medical Center.