Buddy Butts

Buddy's older sister is Judi Vinson and his younger brother is Charles Butts.

Buddy met Wanda Holder in 1975, and they were married in 1976. He has two daughters, Melanie and Angie, from a previous marriage. Angie has a son named Brett, who will be four in February and is Buddy's only grandchild, so far.

At the time of his death, Buddy was employed by the City of Jackson Parks and Maintenance Department as a supervisor. He was working on the park on McRaven Road at the site of the Mississippi River Basin Model at Clinton. Buddy had built soccer fields and had done a lot of the grading and bulldozing for the park. Because of his hard work and dedication to this project, the park was named Buddy Butts Park in memory of him.

His hobbies were fishing and hunting. Buddy was a member of Raymond Road Baptist Church. He passed away on November 21, 1980, from melanoma cancer.

He and Wanda have a son, Robert Andrew, who was born on December 8, 1980, and is named for Buddy and Wanda's father.

Buddy was a devoted father and a loving husband.

-- Biographical sketch courtesy of Wanda Somers