Funeral services will be at 3 pm Friday, June 4 th., 2021 at Crestwood Funeral

Home Chapel for Mildred Elizabeth Pope Butts, 88, Hokes Bluff, who died

Saturday, May 29 th , 2021. The Rev. Daniel Pope officiates. Burial will be in

Crestwood Cemetery.

Mildred was a graduate of Emma Sansom High School. She worked 17 years

for Diana Shop on Broad Street and at the Gadsden Mall. She loved joining

friends at Senior Dinners. She loved children, cooking, and with a sense of

humor keeping her husband, Venson, in line. She was a loving wife, mother,

grandmother, and great-grandmother not to mention her stints as a mother

to the friends of her daughters on numerous occasions (whom she considered

her honorary daughters).

She was preceded in death by her husband, Venson Butts; her parents, George

Frank Pope and Veo Virginia Lovvorn Pope; as well as her siblings Louise

Pope Awbrey, Edsel Pope, and Douglas Pope; and her beautiful great-

granddaughter Brittany Elizabeth Murphy.

She is survived by her brothers Frank Pope and Jim Pope as well as her

daughters Pamela Murphy, Katrina Hubbard, and Kristie Shields;

grandchildren, Priscilla (Dewayne) Speegle, Amy (Patrick) Terry, Joshua

(Amy) Long and Sydney (Austin) Roy; in addition to her precious and much-

loved great-grandchildren. Pallbearers will be family members, John Awbrey,

Joshua Long, Patrick Terry, Dewayne Speegle, Austin Roy, and Bryan Crane.

The family will receive friends from 1pm until the time-of-service Friday at

the funeral home.