Betty L. Butler, 82, Minneapolis, passed away Wednesday, March 12, 2014 at the Salina Regional Health Center.   She was born September 25, 1931 in Dodge City to August L and Clara K. (Cordes) Bortz.

Betty was a 1949 graduate of Plains High School.  She was also attended the Kansas State Teachers College in Emporia and she graduated from Cloud County Community College in Concordia.  She was united in marriage with Curtis Butler on February 13, 1954 in Meade.  Betty was the secretary to the superintendent and clerk of the board for the Meade schools for four years and she was a secretary at the Minneapolis High School for 26 years, retiring in 1997.  In the fall of 1997, Betty went to work at the Minneapolis Grade School as a paraprofessional where she was still working at the time of her death.  All together she worked for U.S.D. 239 for 43 years.  Betty was a member of the Christ the King Lutheran Church in Salina; American Medical Record Association, and Pi Kappa Sigma.  She also served as councilwoman for the City of Minneapolis from 1978-1980.

Betty was preceded in death by her husband, Curtis, on December 7, 2006; sister LaMoyne Agnes Bortz; grandson Michael Cole; and great-grandson Ethan Rian Disney-Cole.

Survivors include her daughters Kim Shafer, Dana Johnson and her husband Charles (Dub), brother Wayne August Bortz, sister Nila Jeanne Surgi, four grandchildren Joy Johnson, Kelly Marsh, David Cole, and Steven Cole, six great-grandchildren Keneth, Stephanie, Walker, Justice, and Natalie Cole, and Cael Marsh, and extended family Brigitte Nelson (daughter of Dean and Bette (Shafer) Steinbrock) and her sons John, Shafer, and Zachary Nelson.

Funeral services will be at 2:00 P.M., Saturday, March 15 at the Christ the King Lutheran Church, 111 W. Magnolia, Salina.  Burial will be in Highland Cemetery, Minneapolis.  Visitation will be from 2 P.M. to 8 P.M. Friday at Wilson Family Funeral Home, Minneapolis, where the family will receive friends from 4 P.M. to 6 P.M.  In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Christ the King Lutheran Church building fund.