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Named after his great grandfather, Frederick Edward Butler came into this world in Susanville, California, on September 24, 1950, through Mark Ray and Helen Hanks Butler, an elementary school teacher and piano teacher, respectively, who instilled in him a zest for life-long learning and avid reading. They were the bows from which Frederick as a living arrow was sent forth.
Frederick was gifted with curiosity and intellect very early. When old enough to walk, he nearly drove his parents crazy as he turned every knob or dial he could find including those on the stove. Fascinated by everything that turned, he preferred turning his tricycle that he never rode upside down to turn the front wheel by hand to watch it whirl. Although a gifted reader with an expansive vocabulary of unusual words from years of poetry and song from his mother, Frederick preferred the sciences, particularly hands on. As a youngster, he stuck a metal object in an electrical outlet. The terrible shock made him look a little green and made him shake and shake, but he didn't cry. He was only excited to learn how electricity felt.
Frederick joined the US Navy in 1970 completing electronics training. Not satisfied with the basic instruction, he squirreled away to the naval library in the evenings to learn more than presented in class. During his six-year enlistment, Frederick also completed, at the top of his class, the Nuclear Power Plant Operator course and Radar/Nuclear Power School and served on the nuclear submarine USS Permit as one of the operators of the power source.
Frederick returned to California upon discharge, where he completed his Bachelor, Master and Doctorate degree in High Energy Particle Physics from the University of California at Berkley. He first worked for the University of Oklahoma, but was on loan to Cornell University for about 10 years researching Light Particles. Here he installed light particle detectors that measured quarks emitted under high voltage, high speed collision of atoms in the highly complicated linear accelerator. Upon his return to the University of Oklahoma, Fred taught Physics before moving into private industry as a Software Engineer with Telos in Lawton to better provide for his growing family.
Frederick passed away on December 25, 2017, in Lawton, OK, after a long illness.
Frederick was preceded in death by his father and his sister, Jennifer Caprasecca.
He is survived by his loving wife of more than 22 years, Juanita (Cogo) Butler, whom he met and married in the Phillipines at Polanco Catholic Church, and his son, Edward, who is in his third year at Cameron University with the same intellectual prowess as his father.
He is also survived by his first loving family: His mother, Helen Butler Dastrup of Logan, UT; his step-mother, Beverly Butler of Idaho Falls, ID; two sisters, Robin Ibarra of Fortuna, CA, and Elizabeth Butler Dastrup of Las Vegas, NV; his half-brother, Jason Hamer Dastrup of Durango, CO; and six step-brothers and sisters, Steven Dastrup of Las Vegas, NV; Janice Fry of Scottsdale, AZ; Connie Kohfeld and Randall Dastrup, both from Logan, UT; Kathy Dastrup of San Diego, CA; and Stanley Dastrup of Benson, AZ.
A memorial service will be held on Friday, December 29, 2017 at 10:00 pm with Father Brian Buettner officiating at Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church, 12 SW 7th Street in Lawton.
Visitation will be Thursday evening from 3-4 pm at Whinery-Huddleston Funeral Service, 6210 NW Cache Road in Lawton. In lieu of flowers, please send loving prayers.
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