Joe Ann Butters

Joe Ann Butters, age 72, passed away on June 9, 2022, at Huntsville Hospital in Huntsville, Alabama. Funeral services will be 4:00 p.m. Sunday, June 12 in the Nowell-Massey Funeral Home Chapel in Louisville with Rev. Roger Griffith and Rev. John Sweeney officiating. Visitation will be the day of the service from 3 p.m. until service time at Nowell-Massey Funeral Home. Interment will immediately follow the service in Louisville Memorial Cemetery.

Joe Ann was born November 9, 1949, to Joe C. and Lawrence Richardson Keene in Winston County. She was a member of Plainview Church of God in Rainsville, Alabama. Joe Ann had a calm, caring, and loving nature. She was a homemaker who also enjoyed caring for the elderly and babysitting young children; she also worked in the nursery at every church she ever attended. Joe Ann also enjoyed gardening, working in her yard and her flowers but most of all, she loved and was very involved with her family. She was a surrogate “Mom” to many who knew and loved her through the years.

Joe Ann is survived by her husband of 55 years Allen Butters of Rainsville, Alabama. She also leaves behind her children: Linda Kay (Kenya) Duckworth of West Point, Mississippi; Kathy Lynn Ward of Nashville, Tennessee; Karen Jean Jones of Columbus, Mississippi; James Allen (Emily) Butters of Knoxville, Tennessee; and Rubye Joy (Dennis) Dodson of Rainsville, Alabama. One of her greatest joys was being “Grandma” to her eight grandchildren: Kaylin Duckworth, Kristopher Duckworth, and Kelsey Duckworth, William David Byrge, Woody Byrge, Mikel Byrge, Ruby Anna Dodson, Patrick Allen Dodson; and one great-grandchild Sincere Duckworth. She is also survived by her sister Rubye (Wayne) Clark. Joe Ann is preceded in death by her parents; two brothers G.W. and Wesley Keene; and a nephew Kevin Clark.

Serving as pallbearers are Kristopher Duckworth, Mikel Byrge, Patrick Dodson, Turner Barnhill, Dylan Castle, Evan Grimes, and Justin Richard. Memorials in honor of Joe Ann may be given to Jimmy Swaggart Ministries online at jsm.org.

Services are under the direction of Nowell-Massey Funeral Home, 724 North Columbus Avenue, Louisville, MS. Memories and condolences may be shared with the family by signing the guest register at www.nowellmasseyfuneralhome.com.