Charles Tolhurst Butler ’35

Charlie died in his home town of Hazelton, Pa., on June 8, 1999. He was 86. The only child of Lafayette L. Butler '08 and Vivian Tolhurst Butler, he was an honors graduate from Blair Academy and a cum laude graduate of Princeton in chemical engineering. During his junior year he was associate editor of '35's Bric-a-Brac, and during his senior year, he was band manager and a member of Theatre Intime and Dial Lodge.

After graduation, Charlie joined the family business (Central Penn Quarry Stripping & Construction Co.) as secretary and manager of surface mining operations. During WWII, he was a glider test pilot/instructor at Wright Field in Dayton, Ohio, and served in the ETO.

After the war he returned home and became secretary of Benjamin Iron & Steel Co. He retired in 1958 and happily embraced other interests. He formed and served as secretary-treasurer of Can Do City Motors in West Hazelton, taught math at MMI Preparatory School in Freeland, Pa., and at West Hazelton H.S., and financed the college education of many students he met.

Charlie never married. His closest survivors are his cousins, Mary Paul Bellows, Margaret King, and Wm. C. M. Butler. With them we'll miss a warm-hearted, loyal classmate.

The Class of 1935