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 Mohena H. Butler
April 24, 2005
Mohena H. Butler, 81, of Devonshire Estates died Sunday morning at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield.
Born in Bayside, N.Y., on Sept. 22, 1923, daughter of Franklin L. and Mohena Belle Roberts Harris, she was a 1941 graduate of Bayside High School. She also graduated from secretarial school in Manhattan.
She lived in Bayside and Glen Cove, N.Y., for 35 years each, and in Fishkill, N.Y., for 10 years.
Mrs. Butler was employed as a secretary for various lawyers in New York City and Long Island, and for Pan Am Airlines in New York and for Bayside Methodist Church until her retirement.
She was an active member of United Methodist Church and co-founder of a church thrift shop in Sea Cliff, N.Y., which continues to thrive.
She and her husband, Ralph H. Butler, were married Aug. 28, 1948, in Bayside.
Besides her husband, she leaves two daughters, Meryl Ann Butler of Prescott, Ariz., and Joyce E. Butler of Great Barrington, and two grandchildren.
FUNERAL NOTICE -- A memorial service for Mohena Belle Harris Butler, who died April 24, 2005, will be conducted Thursday at 10 at United Methodist Church of Lenox by the Rev. Eric Dupee, pastor. Private burial will take place Friday at Raymond Hills Cemetery in Carmel, N.Y.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to HospiceCare in the Berkshires in care of ROCHE FUNERAL HOME, 120 Main St., Lenox, MA 01240. Mrs. Butler loved people and was an active and energetic parishioner at each of the churches of which she was a member. Mohena is also survived by her granddaughter, C. Angelica Perry of Glen Cove, N.Y.; her grandson, Michael K. Leary of Great Barrington; her son-in-law, Richard B. Wilcox of Great Barrington; her aunt, Dixie Roberts Baurenfeind of Punta Gorda, Fla.; seven nieces and nephews, and many friends in all the places she had lived.
She was predeceased by her brother, Ira Harris, in 1995. The thrift shop she co-founded gave her the opportunity to meet and befriend people while raising money for her church. Mohena inherited the gift of verse from her grandfather. She composed rhymes for the original Christmas, birthday and other greeting cards that she and her husband created together for all of their married lives. Everyone was entertained by her sharp wit and creative use of puns through her very last days.
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