[Dixielandjazz] Peggy Butler R.I.P.

[Robert Ringwald]

Peggy Louise Butler
1942-2014
Peggy Louise Butler, a 36-year resident of Granite Bay, left this world behind into
the loving arms of her Lord on May 28, 2014. She was 71-years-of-age.
Born in Hanford, Calif., Oct. 26, 1942, she was the daughter of Ab and Oneta Breazaele.
Peggy graduated from Richmond High School and Contra Costa Junior College and spent
her career as a field engineer in charge of gas measurement in the Sacramento Valley
gas fields for Shell Oil Co.
Peggy was a longtime volunteer for the Sacramento Jazz Society and also worked in
her retirement years as secretary in the STJS office.
She and her husband, Charles W. Butler – a former heavy-duty tire sales engineer
as well as a longtime editorial staff member for the Auburn Journal -
literally traveled the globe in pursuit of their passion, traditional jazz, and was
instrumental in founding the short-lived Auburn Jazz Festival held at the Gold Country
Fairgrounds in
the mid 1980s. She counted some of the world’s greatest jazz musicians
in her wide circle of friends and touted the High Sierra Jazz Band of Three Rivers,
Calif., among her favorite groups
During the late 1980s, the Butlers published the short-lived but widely-acclaimed
four-color glossy magazine on trad jazz, “Storyville Notes.”
Peggy was preceded by her father, Ab Breazaele and mother Oneta Mastorakos. She is
survived by husband Charles (Chuck) Butler; aunts Robbie Ann Williams of Tulsa OK
and Phyllis Needham of Tulare, Calif.; cousins Connie and Tobi Kelly of Visalia and
Debbie Myers and Donna Stromberg of Pasadena; step sons Don Butler of Galt and Dave
Butler of Rocklin; four grandchildren, Blair and Lane Butler of Rocklin; and Charles
Rawson Butler and Jeni Butler of Galt.
Arrangements are being made by Chapel of the Hills in Auburn, and she desired no
funeral service. Her remains will be inurned in the Butler family plot, Cypress Lawn
Memorial Park, Everett, Wash.
Donations in her name may be made to Shri n ers Childrens Hospital.
“The music in my heart I bore long after it was heard no more.”
William Wordsworth
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