Wanda Lee Butler

Wanda Lee Nation Butler, 94, of Paris, passed away Thursday, September 29, 2016, at Legend Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center. Services are scheduled for 10:00 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 1st, at Bright-Holland Funeral Home with Rev. Royce Dickey officiating. Private burial will be made in Evergreen Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 9:30 – 10:00 a.m. Saturday at the funeral home. Mrs. Butler, the daughter of Manuel David & Donia Cooper Gentry Nation, was born Jan. 13, 1922, in Biardstown. She attended school at Hazeldell, which later consolidated with Broadway, better known as Chisum today. She went to work for Lamar County Hospital as a nurse during World War II. Later she worked for J. C. Penny and McClellan’s Five and Dime Store where she met and married Harold Butler. They went to Falfurrias and were married by Rev. Clayborn M. Kicker in the Methodist Church. They moved to Waco where she worked for Harry Newton Road Construction Company of Graham, Texas as a field office secretary. She worked there for some time before enrolling in cosmetology school. After graduation she began working for Airehart Beauty Salon where she was employed until returning to Paris. She then worked for Irene’s Beauty Salon. Later Irene moved to Arkansas at which time Wanda began working at Gibson’s Department Store where she retired. She attended the Apostolic Church in Hugo, OK where she taught Sunday school before joining Shepherd’s Way United Pentecostal Church in Paris. She was preceded in death by her husband, Harold, on Nov. 27, 2012. Also a sister, Virginia Bell Nation. Survivors include her son, Rev. John David Griffith & wife Bernice, three grandchildren, seven great grandchildren, one great great grandchild, a very special niece, Donna Hobbs along with numerous nieces & nephews and a host of friends.