Jack Hamilton Butcher ’38

JACK BUTCHER loved life and lived it to the fullest, whether in his successful manufacturing operations with Butcher & Hart in Toledo and Altoona, Penn., and then at Motors Materials, a firm he founded in Detroit, or in retirement in Naples, Fla. He often said that he was luckier than the average man because he had so many friends. A family man, he and first wife Marguerite had three children, Kenneth, Kathryn, and Kimberly, with whom he enjoyed golf and fishing. Marguerite died in 1964.

In 1966, Jack married Betty Gail, and acquired another loving family, her three sets of twins and a daughter, to whom he was equally devoted. Upon his retirement in 1979, they moved to Naples, Fla., where he worked with Betty in her favorite project, Hospice of Naples. She died suddenly in Jan. 1992. Jack contracted liver cancer and was a patient in their hospice house when he died on July 17, 1993,

Jack enrolled at Princeton with '37. He later became a member of the Class of '38 and although he left during our sophomore year, he remained a loyal Tiger and came to our 50th reunion, We share his large family's loss.

The Class of 1938