Leslie Ann Buttler-Fojtik

Leslie Ann Buttler-Fojtik our beautiful daughter, wife, mother, and sister went to be with our Lord, Jesus, on Sunday February 24, 2013. It was much too soon for all of us left to grieve our loss. Truly all who knew her loved her. A light here on earth went out. Leslie was born on June 7, 1968 in Austin, Texas. She was the Daughter of Georgia Ann and Larry Jack Buttler. The whole Buttler family joined Riverbend Church in the early 1980ties and were very much active members. Leslie was baptized after following Christ when she was 9 years old along with her Daddy Larry. Leslie is the youngest of the three daughters. Kathy Moore and Shari Buttler her two older sisters loved her immeasurably. She will be greatly missed by her only surviving grandparents, George and Marion Shell of Georgetown. Her Aunt Lynn and Uncle Morris Hoover were always there with love and kindness. Her first cousins Lindsey and Creighton Hoover were a very big part of her life. Kathy’s daughters Courtney and Rachael and Shari’s daughter Elizabeth dearly loved their Aunt Leslie.

She lived most of her life in Austin, having lived about four years in Sherman, Texas with her parents and sisters and the last four and a half years in Katy with her loving husband Steven and her precious daughter Alexis Ann Fojtik. Sister-in-Law Paulette Hendrix, niece, Erica and her husband Bob Blankenship were a loving part of her life. She was preceded in death by grandparents, Edna Shell (her Mimi) and Jack and Vera Buttler.

After graduation Leslie accepted a teaching job with A.I.S.D. at Winn Elementary School in N.E. Austin. During her time at Winn she was a very successful teacher with many parents requesting her for their children. It was at Winn that she was nominated as “Teacher of the Year.” During her time there is when she met and married the love of her life Steven Fojtik. With this marriage she gained three sons, Matt, Kyle and Cody, now that these boys have become wonderful men, she has a special love for Matt’s wife Katie and Kyle’s wife Madeline and Cody’s girlfriend, Ashley.

A special thanks to longtime friends Kalene and Janet who were with her at the end of her life and continue to be a blessing to her family.

She later transferred to Highland Park Elementary in West Austin. While there she gave birth to their beautiful daughter Alexis Ann. Highland Park Elementary was a school that her Aunt Lynn Hoover taught at for many years and where later her sister Shari worked in the school’s office.

A memorial service was held on Friday, March 1, 2013 at Riverbend Church in the Smith Chapel. An internment will be held at the Remembrance Gardens at a later date.

Believing in the resurrection . . . morning will come.