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Dorena Goff Butler



B: July 07, 1916
D: October 30, 2011


Submitted by: Ann Weber
©Smith Gallo Funeral Home





On a beautiful July 7, 1916, a bouncing baby girl named Dorena was born to Will and Jessie (Hudson) Goff in Evansville, Oklahoma. She was the second child born in this union. She attended school at Evansville but later received her Graduation Efficiency Degree (GED).

She accepted Christ at an early age under the leadership of Bishop F. C. Scott in Big Oak, Oklahoma.

She had a gift for singing and later formed a family group and sang at various church functions and singing conventions. When she moved her family to Guthrie in 1956, she joined Church of the Living God, CWFF, Temple #86. She was a faithful member of the Adult Choir, Mission and always helped wherever she was needed, including the church kitchen. She also was a member of 6th District and national choruses.

She met and married Percy (Brock) Butler, Sr. in 1938. To this union, two children we born, Percy Jr. and Febbie K. She learned to be a "jack of all trades". She could sew an oufit, curl hair and cook all in one afternoon. But her passion was cooking! She started cooking at a young age. Her first experience was one to remember! She had to make biscuits and she misunderstood the amount of flour to put in. The biscuits were so bad, the animals did not want them. As she got older, she got better. She began to cook at various business around Guthrie until 1965 when she accepted a cooking position at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater. She improved her culinary skills that made her well known. After she retired from OSU, she continued to find cooking positions all around Stillwater. She could cook anything that she saw, heard about or tasted. She wanted everybody to know that she was legit. At the age of 75, she enrolled and graduated from Indian Meridian Vo-Tech School with a certification in Cooking. She was a very proud graduate and the family is proud of her. People started requesting her homemade cinnamon rolls, dinner rolls, sweet potato pies, pumpkin rolls and various cakes all the time. She kept cooking until her health began to fail.

On occasion, she was asked to sing one of her favorite hymns, "Shine On Me". She continued to attend church services to praise the Lord until her death. She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, daughters Ruthie M. Jones and Febbie K. Abode and sisters, Elnora Lewis and Frankie King.

Dorena leaves to celebrate her life: her son, Reverend Percy G. [Renee] Butler; grandsons, Minister Philip [Rhondelyn] Abode, both of Tulsa, OK; Carlos Abode, Norman, OK; Ronnie [Diane] Jones; granddaughters, Vanessa Hinds, Guthrie, OK; Lenora [Larry] Whitely, Columbus, MS; SuDonna Jones; Julia [Donald] Morgan, both from Oklahoma City, OK ; and Kim McCormick, Arlington, TX, sisters, Clemontine Butler and Della Hathorne, both of Guthrie and brother, Charles [Viola] Jones, Jr. Langston, OK, and adopted daughter, Deidre Knox, Oklahoma City, OK along with a caravan of other relatives, friends and church families.

Funeral services for Dorena will be held at 10:00 a.m., Saturday, November 5, 2011 at Church of the Living God, Guthrie, OK with Reverend Donald Morgan, Jr. officiating. Interment will follow at Memory Gardens Memorial Park Cemetery. Services are under the direction of Smith-Gallo Funeral Home, Guthrie.

Visitation will be Friday, 12:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.


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