Obituary for Judith Butler (Rae)

Judith  Butler (Rae)
Judith Rae Butler, 77 of Salem, Va. passed away Wednesday, June 13, 2018. She was born on Thursday, June 20, 1940 in Medford, Massachusetts to the late Kenneth Allen and Etta Thorburn Rae; and step-mother, Dorothy Vaughan Thorburn Rae. Judith was an amazing wife, mother, and grandmother. Her quiet grace, strength, wisdom, patience, and selfless optimism will be greatly missed. In addition to her parents she is preceded in death by her husband, Francis H. Butler; one brother, Robert Allen Rae.
She is survived by her children, Margaret Butler Ambrose and husband, Michael, Debora Butler West and husband, Brian, Brian Scott Butler, and Patricia Diane Butler; grandchildren, Marlena Mangan, Jennafer Hamm and husband, Andy, Stacie Bruner and husband, Jonathan, Brian West II, Thomas C. Hope and wife, Dorothy, and Ivanna Butler; great-grandchildren, Anaiah Robinson, Jaxon, and Jeremiah Bruner, Leon Olmstead; sister, Jean Rae Baker and husband, Harold “Skip”; sisters-in-law, Sarah L. Butler Tuckwiller, and Shari Rae, and numerous other loved ones also survive.
A funeral service will be conducted at 2 p.m. on Monday, June 18, 2018 at John M. Oakey & Son Funeral Home in Salem, Va. Burial will follow at Sherwood Memorial Park in Salem, Va.
The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 2-4 p.m. & 6-8 p.m. on Sunday, June 17, 2018.
Online condolences may be directed to the family at www.johnmoakey.com
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