Linda Mae Butler

Linda’s funeral service will be held on Saturday October 11, 2025 at the Foxwarren Community Chapel at 2:00 pm. Followed by Interment in Foxwarren Cemetery by the Family.  Everyone is welcome to attend the Celebration of life lunch at Foxwarren Leisure Centre following service.

It is with great sadness the family of Linda Butler from Foxwarren, announce her passing at the age of 79 on September 25, 2025.

LInda grew up on the family farm, just east of Foxwarren, with her 4 siblings, and parents. She spent much of her youth involved in school, church, and community events. It was during her grade 11 year that Linda started dating Alan, the boy who sat behing her in class.

After finishing grade 11 at Foxwarren Consolidated School, Linda attended Assiniboine Community College after which she worked for the Royal Bank in Birtle, beginning her 30+ year career with the Royal Bank. Alan and Linda married in 1966 and then moved to Winnipeg where they started their careers. They then moved to West St. Paul where they lived in a small home at Middlechurch Airport while Alan worked there at Johansons’ Air Service. While living there they started their family when son, David, was born. A couple of years later, they built their own home in Stony Mountain and completed their family with two more children, Tanis and Mark.

With the completion of their family, Linda and Alan began their never ending involvement in community organizations. Together, Linda and Alan volunteered with the Stony Mountain Rec Centre, Stony Mountain Minor Hockey, and Interlake Minor Hockey - often with Alan as President while Linda volunteered as secretary/treasurer or registrar. Through these activities, Linda made life long friends, enjoying the chaos of spending entire weekends in the rink canteen working with people who were like family. Linda was also an active volunteer at Stony Mountain Elementary School, helping the speech and language program, sewing costumes for school concerts, and helping to organize fundraising as part of the Home and School organization. In between all of these activities, Linda and Alan were actively involved with their children’s activities including hockey, figure skating, refereeing, organ lessons, and school concerts. As her children got older, Linda returned to work at the Stonewall Branch of the Royal Bank as a bank teller. She then decided to continue her training and become a Certified Financial Advisor, an accomplishment she was very proud of.

Upon retirement, Linda and Alan moved back to their hometown of Foxwarren and became involved in the local community organizations. Foxwarren Leisure Centre, Foxwarren Service to Seniors, Foxwarren Historical Society, and Snotraxx Snowmobile Club were some of the organizations they worked with, often with Alan as president and Linda as Secretary or Treasurer. Countless hours were spent running Bingo, working at pancake breakfasts, organizing teas and fundraisers, weeding the Memory Garden and signing the snowmobile trails. While Linda never wanted a leading role or to be in charge, she was always in the midst of activities, helping with the planning and making sure things got done.

The greatest joy of Linda’s life was her family. She loved camping, travelling, and sitting around a bonfire with her children and grandchildren. She was thrilled to go snowmobiling with them and enjoyed it even more when extended family would come visit and go out for a ride.

Being a part of her grandchildren’s lives and watching them grow up was precious to her. She was proud of each one of them, their accomplishments, and especially how they overcame their unique challenges to become the loving and caring people they are today. Of course, none of this would have been possible without the love of her life, her husband, Alan. Even when Alzheimer’s took her words, Linda still recognized those she loved and never let her loved ones leave without telling them “Love You”.

Linda is survived by her husband of 59 and a half years, Alan, children David (Kristine), Tanis (Kevin), and Mark, grandchildren Jayna (Mitchell), Evan (Blaire), Rebecca, Noah, her great granddaughter Raeya, sister Verna (Dave), brother-in-law Grant (Kim), sister-in-law Donna, and many nephews and nieces. Linda was predeceased by her parents Gordon and Ethel Stewart, sister Donna, brothers Ralph and Bill, parents-in-law Bill and Betty Butler, and brother-in-law Mac.

The family would like to thank the staff at the Russell Hospital and Palliative Care unit for caring for Linda with kindness and empathy.

In her final years, Linda loved to walk among the flowers and along the paths at the Foxwarren Memory Garden and help at the Foxwarren Museum. In lieu of flowers, donations are gratefully accepted at the Foxwarren Historical Society and Memory Garden.

A Celebration of Life is to be held at Foxwarren Community Chapel on Saturday, October 11 at 2:00pm, followed by lunch at Foxwarren Leisure Centre. A private interment will take place at Foxwarren Cemetery.