Henry J. Butler ’27

"HANK" DIED Feb. 23, 1991, after a stroke, at the Barnes Hospital in St. Louis. For many years he was president of Butler, Kohaus, Inc., maker of electric lighting fixtures. He gave the building to St. Louis Univ. when he retired. He was a director of Bruce Terminix Inc. of St. Louis. During WWII, Hank operated a plant making parts for armor-piercing and fragmentation bombs, and served in the Missouri State Guard.

He became a devoted club man and was dedicated to public service, particularly as Federal jury commissioner for Missouri (1953-73). Off duty, Hank was a flower gardener, golfer, freshwater fisherman, hunter, tennis buff, cruiser, church trustee, and devoted Princeton reunioner.

Hank was one of our notable family chiefs, father of four daughters, frankly admitting "can't remember the names of all my grandkids."

We sympathize with his widow (4642 Pershing Place, St. Louis, MO 63108), and his daughters: Beatrice Toberman, Anne Muckerman, Martha von Guggenberg, and Judith Fohlers. Memorial gifts may be sent to Outreach Ministry, Church of St. Michael and St. George, P.O. Box 11887, Clayton, MO 63105.

PAW June 12th, 1991