Butch was born in Charleston on March 10, 1957, to Sue Caldwell Hatfield and the late Donald Wayne Hatfield Sr. He was a 1975 graduate of East Bank High School and attended WV Tech in Montgomery. He was a dedicated community servant and served as the recorder for the Town of Chesapeake and the Clerk for the Sanitary Board. A Christian and ordained minister, he attended the Wills Memorial Church. He was an avid musician.
Butch is survived by a son, Andrew Hatfield of Chesapeake; daughter, Isabella (Jason) King and children of Prestonsburg, Kentucky; mother, Sue Caldwell Hatfield of Chesapeake; sister, Donna (Tim) Haynes of Boiling Springs, South Carolina and their children, Rebekah and TJ of Nashville, Tennessee.
The funeral service will be held 1:00 p.m. on Tuesday, November 5, 2019, at Stevens & Grass Funeral Home, Malden, with his brother-in-law, the Rev. Tim Haynes and the Rev. Damron Bradshaw officiating. The burial will follow the service at Cunningham Memorial Park, St. Albans.
A visitation with family and friends will be held one hour prior to the service on Tuesday at the funeral home.