In Memory of Dorothy Butler
My Aunt Dot, Dorothy Ann Bancroft Butler, passed away on May 1, 2025. Aunt Dot was my godmother and was one of the adults who was always there for me as a child and as an adult. My first memory from the age of three or four is of my Aunt Dot. She and Uncle Harry were living at my grandparents’ house while their house was being built and I was living on the same property. One day, my mom and my siblings and I walked up to see her. I I had my doll to show her and she showed me her new baby, Rhonda. “This is my doll,” she told me. Rhonda and Aunt Dot will always be linked in my mind, always together, always there for each other. Aunt Dot was a wonderful aunt and a wonderful mother, an example to me of so much that is good. I remember every summer going to spend a week at Aunt Dot’s house with her and Uncle Harry, Rhonda and Amy and then after many years, Daphne. What a good week we always had! That big back yard, the basement with so many toys, picking ...