Saturday, February 17, 2018
To the family of Leon Butterfield.
I want to express my condolences for the loss of your husband and father.
How proud you must be for the man that touched so many lives in such a positive way. My brother and sister and myself walked back and forth to school with him everyday. At least tried. We would end up running. He become a father figure when we desperately needed one, and he became our hero.
In later years when he was taking day bus trips to KC they would stop for a break in Iola, RSC store, I recognized him immediately. I rush up to talk to him and said, I bet you don't remember me do You? "Of course, you lived on Poplar , you have a younger brother and sister". I was amazed, it was about 60 yrs ago.
He will be remembered by our family as a God sent Hero, when we needed one desperately.
God bless Mr Butterfield and his family.
