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appointed 1 would be willing to do what I could for the children of the county.”
A lifelong Rappahannock County resident, Mrs. Butler retired last year after teaching for 34 years. Although she began teaching in Pennsylvania, she returned to the county when she married Howard Butler, whom she met at the Manassas Industrial School.
She began her career in the county school system in 1957, teaching until 1968 in the segregated Washington Graded School. In 1968, she moved to the county’s new consolidated elementary school, where she taught first, second and third grades.
As the number of children in the county grew, so did the class size, and the county reduced the number of grades taught by each teacher. Mrs. Butler chose third grade, where she stayed until her retirement.
In an interview after her retirement last year, Mrs. Butler said she feels that the permissive attitude of many of today’s parents and teachers is an injustice to the children: “Children want limits. They want direction,” she said.
She also volunteered during that interview that she’d be willing to re
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