Millersburg Military Institute - Sniper Yearbook (Millersburg, KY)

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Mr. William Miller Butler, a most distinguished graduate of MMI class of 1933, departed this life on 24 January 1980, and it is most fitting that the 1980 Sniper be dedicated to Billy . He was the son of one of the original backers of MMI's continuation in 1920, a descendant of the Miller Family, an MMI Trustee, president of the Farmers-Exchange Bank, Millersburg, a partner for 42 years in Millersburg Coal and Lumber Company, owner and operator of the Butler Insurance Agency, and Trustee and past chairman of the Board of the First United Methodist Church. Billy was interested in youth, and was a former Methodist Youth Leader and a Sunday School teacher, a former Boy Scout leader, and was an enthusiast particularly of MMI, the University of Kentucky, from which he graduated in 1938, Duke and the Cincinnati Reds. Mr. Butler was a concerned citizen and veteran of World War II who served as former president of the Millersburg Rotary Club, former member of the Bourbon County Draft Board and the Bourbon County Hospital Board, Councilman and Mayor of the City of Millersburg, and was a member of the Masonic Lodge Amity FxAM 40. A native of Millersburg, he was the son of the late William A. and Kate Miller Butler, and attended MMI from 7th grade until his graduation in 1933. When Mr. Butler became an Honorary Trustee of MMI, his wife Mrs. Ann Talbott Clayton Butler was also elected an MMI Trustee. His son, William Jr., was an MMI graduate of the class of 1968 and the University of Kentucky. His daughter, Ann Butler Irwin graduated from the University of Kentucky. It is with great affection for Billy Butler and recognition of his life long association and dedication to Millersburg and MMI that the Staff and Faculty and Corps of Cadets dedicate this 1980 Sniper in his honor and memory. 5