Marian Lenore Butcher

        This world’s loss was Heaven’s gain on July 25, 2025, when Marian Lenore (Neil) Butcher departed this life for an eternal one with her Lord.

        Born August 5, 1928, as the oldest child of George Franklin and Mabel Lucille (Nash) Neil, she passed away just a few days short of her 97th birthday.

        Spending most of her life as a dedicated wife, mother and homemaker, she was also an owner of a small store in her younger days and an elementary school classroom volunteer for a few years.  She served as a board member and helped start Nicholas Christian Academy and was a dedicated student of the Bible throughout most of her life.

        An amazing women who could turn her hand to almost anything, she kept a spotless house on which she performed her own minor repairs and maintenance following the death of her high school sweetheart and husband Russell Lee Butcher in 1976.  She made beautiful clothes for her family, upholstered her own furniture, sewed curtains, painted and varnished the interior of her house and the houses of her children, and mowed her own grass until she was 89.

        She was always there when anyone needed her especially her parents, children and grandchildren.  Grandchildren always begged to go home with “MaMa”. Even the youngest great-grandchildren looked forward to going to visit their 90 plus year-old “MaMa Butcher”.

        The love and dedication she received were a mere reflection of the love and generosity she poured out to family and friends for so many years.  At home, she was the one who ate the burned toast, the smallest dessert, and the least favorite piece of chicken.  In public, she took joy in treating people to a restaurant meal or bestowing surprise “little gifts” she happened to see that made her think of them.

        A host of family, extended family, and church family are left to honor her memory including three daughters, a son-in-law, seven grandchildren and their spouses, and eight great grandchildren. 

        She is survived by daughters Lenora Kaye Butcher Thomas, Dorothy Lea Butcher Shuck, and Vicki Lynn Butcher (Timothy) Lucas; grandchildren are Kevin (Jennifer) Thomas, Alana Shuck (John) Brown, Carrie Shuck (Richard) Scott, LeAnn Shuck, Sarah Lucas (Joshua) Brown, Jessica Lucas (William) McGuire, and Adam (Glenda) Lucas; great grandchildren are Chiara Thomas, Kaitlin Brown (Tristan) Price, Taylor, Lexi and Jonathan Scott, David, Eliza and Josie Marian Brown, and Preston Mowery; siblings, Bob Neil, Helen Musick, Gloria McNichol and George “Jerry” Neil.  Preceding her in death were her husband, Russell and sisters, Charlene Lucky and Betty Thomas.

        Funeral services will be held at 1:00 PM on Saturday, August 2, 2025 at the Southern Baptist Fellowship Church on Irish Corner in Summersville with Pastor Delbert Walker officiating.  Friends may call at the church two hours prior to the services from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM.  Interment will follow at the WV Memorial Gardens in Calvin under the direction of the White-Anderson Funeral Home in Summersville.

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