2010 Charles Howard Butler died on March 3. [1]
Charles Howard Butler, better know as Howie Butler, died Wednesday, March 3, 2010, in Madison Valley Manor, Ennis. He had called Virginia City his home since the 1970s when he drove out west from New York City with friends and stopped in Virginia City for the summer.
Howie was born in Detroit, Mich., on July 14, 1942. His father was Charles Monroe Butler of Detroit, and mother was Margaret Lowry Butler. The family moved to New York City where his sister, Margaret, was born and then they settled in Greens Farms, Conn., in 1950.
Howie attended Fairfield Country Day School in Connecticut, the Asheville School for Boys in Asheville, N.C., the Forman School in Litchfield, Conn., and MacMurray College in Jacksonville, Ill. He spent a year in 1967 traveling throughout Spain on a Honda motorbike meeting people and learning to speak Spanish. He also traveled to Ireland in 1976, and found a kindred spirit among friends there.
Since moving to Virginia City he had been an ardent fan of the Players in the old opera house there and wrote a play, "The King of the River," which they presented in recent years.
Howie is survived by his mother, Margaret Butler, of Bryn Mawr, Penn.; and sister, Meg Butler Miles, of Asheville, N.C. Memorials may be made to the Madison Valley Manor in Ennis.
[1] Obituary, The Montana Standard, [URL].