Bernadette "Bernie" Thelma LINTON Butler

Terry Louis Linton © 1999

(First Published) Linton Family History (Descendants of Sir Arthur Linton 1614-1662) (book, Terry Louis Linton © 1999.) (Linton Research Fund, Inc., Publication © 1999) (printed in Spotsylvania County, Virginia. USA.)

LINTON & BIRD CHRONICLES, Volume IV, Issue 2, Summer © 2009 ISSN 1941-3521

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Bernadette "Bernie" Thelma LINTON

Bernadette "Bernie" Thelma LINTON, is the daughter of Charles Edward LINTON (1890-1958) and Annie Lucretia CRONK (1888-1956). Bernie was born on February 11, 1921 in her grandfather's old family farmhouse, in the front west 2^nd floor bedroom. She was delivered by "Aunt" Annie Mae Young, a Negro Mid-Wife, living on Parker's Lane. The Linton farmhouse was located on LINTON Lane, near Hunter's Station and Fort Hunt, (now the location of Fort Hunt Elementary School) in the Mount Vernon District, of Fairfax County, Virginia.

On June 6, 1939, Bernie graduated from Lee Jackson High School, in Alexandria, Virginia.

On September 20, 1941, Bernadette "Bernie" Thelma LINTON married Randoulph "Randy" Irvin BUTLER Sr. (1918-2007) in Washington, D.C.. Randoulph was born on April 26, 1918, in Hayfield, Fairfax County, Virginia.

In early 1941, Bernie went to work at the Navy Torpedo Factory in Alexandria, Virginia. "The Torpedo Factory was part of the U.S. Naval Torpedo Station. The factory produced the Mark XIV, a submarine borne torpedo, and the Mark III aircraft torpedo. They were produced at an intense rate in fact, men and women worked around the clock and were given only two days off a year. Gradually as space was needed, ten additional buildings were added to the complex."

On September 20, 1941, Bernadette "Bernie" Thelma LINTON married Randoulph "Randy" Irvin BUTLER Sr. (1918-2007) in Washington, D.C.. Randoulph was born on April 26, 1918, in Hayfield, Fairfax County, Virginia.

Randoulph "Randy" Irvin BUTLER Sr., and Bernadette "Bernie" Thelma LINTON had one child:

Randoulph Irvin BUTLER Jr. was born in August 1946, in Arlington County, Virginia. He died on October 9, 1946, in Arlington County and was buried October 11, 1946, in the National Memorial Park, Falls Church, Fairfax County, Virginia.

Bernie went to work as a secretary in the Pentagon. She was employed as an administrative officer for 28 years with the Department of The Air Force at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. Her duties included record management, budgeted analyst and personnel.

In 1967, Bernie and Randy moved to Mountain View Road in Stafford County, Virginia. After Bernie’s retirement from the government, she served as the treasurer of the Stafford County Extension Homemakers Organization, for four years. Then she served as President of the Stafford County Extension Homemakers Organization.

Bernie was Assistant Treasurer of the Summit Presbyterian Church, a newly organized Church of Stafford County. Bernie kept the records of members tithing, finance statements of the church budget, and paid the church bills. She became an Elder in the Church and served as chairman of the Finance Committee. Summit Presbyterian Church was ten years old in 1993. Bernie is the Historian of the church and wrote the history of the church. The book will be given to each family of the church.

Bernie was the Secretary and Treasurer of the Old Dominion Cardinals Camping Club. She prepared her own Federal and State Income Tax Forms. She had her appendix removed in March of 1942, at the age of 22. Never hospitalized, until January of 1991, when she had double heart bypass. She had a little complication with heart rhythm and fluid which was corrected. She is a very active bowler in leagues over the years. Takes long trips and does a lot of camping and walking.

Editor Note: Randoulph "Randy" Irvin BUTLER Sr., died on Sunday, March 11, 2007, in Mary Washington Hospital, Fredericksburg, Virginia, at age 88. Randy was buried on March 16, 2007, in the National Memorial Park, Falls Church, Fairfax County, Virginia.

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