Debrah Ann Butler

Published 12:35 pm Thursday, February 9, 2012

NEW CASTLE, Del. — Services for Debrah Ann Butler of New Castle, formerly of Vicksburg, will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Kings Community Empowerment Center with Pastor Patrick Taylor officiating. Burial will follow at Cedar Hill Cemetery. Visitation will be from 1 until 6 p.m. Friday at Dillon-Chisley Funeral Home and Saturday at the center from 10 a.m. until the service.

Ms. Butler died Friday, Feb. 3, 2012, at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. She was 53.

She was employed by the YMCA. She attended Warren Central High School and was a member of Mount Moriah Pentecostal Church in New Castle, where she served on the usher board.

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She was preceded in death by a grandson, Ira “Duke” Harris Parker Jr.; and her maternal grandparents, Henry Butler and Montana Barbara Mosley Butler. Survivors include Luther Sessoms of New Castle; a son, Detriche Butler of Vicksburg; two daughters, Shelia Butler of Houston, Texas, and Dewanda Butler of Vicksburg; her mother, Elizabeth “Sue” Butler of Vicksburg; her father, Charlie Gray of Aurora, Ill.; two brothers, Kenneth Butler of Vicksburg and Broderick Butler of Memphis; six sisters, Vanessa Butler and Katina Butler, both of Decatur, Ga., Cynthia B. Williams of New Castle, Erika Lamborn of Wilmington, Del., and Audrey B. Walker and Esther Regina Butler, both of Vicksburg; five grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; and nieces, nephews, friends and other relatives, including Gladys “Doll” Butler and Jacqueline Swartz of Vicksburg, Barbara Caples Roberts of San Antonio and the Winters, Carson, Younger, Caples and Tyler families.