Beloved daughter of Robert and Diana Butler and brother Todd.
Tanna Lee Butler died a month before she was ten. She had struggled with leukemia since she was two and finally it was too much. The last time I saw her was just a month before she died as she became my daughter Nancy's godmother. She loved babies and now she had one of her own. During her last night she and her Mommie Diana were in Tanna's bed. They talked most of the night and she even told her Mom three jokes. Toward morning she sent her Mom to bed and she passed on. I was her babysitter for much of those eight years and loved her dearly.
The following is a poem written by a family friend named Dorothy Griffin.
IN MEMORY OF TANNA BUTLER
God has called another loved one home, a special darling child.
Who taught us all so many things, with her tender love so mild.
Tanna carried a burden most of her life that must have made her heart feel faint.
But she accepted her illness graciously, just as though she was a saint.
With laughing eyes and a smile so sweet, she never did complain---
But tried to brighten all our lives, though she was the one in pain.
Tanna adored her loving parents and he gentle brother Todd,
She thought her grandma special, this wonderous child of God.
That household must have been special with an angel living there,
Who talked about her future plans, as though she hadn't a care.
Trying to hide her pain from them, for acting she developed a flair,
As she kept right on smiling to save them from dispair.
Bible school meant much to her, for she met her Jesus there,
This year she couldn't be there, it wasn't in God's plan,
But I know she never lost her faith as Jesus held her hand.
This angel was my special friend, who taught me humility,
And I will hold her memory close, for she'll always be with me.
When our pain grows a little dimmer as we think of the one we adored,
We'll know Tanna was a gift of God, loaned to her parents by our Lord.
Tanna Lee Butler died a month before she was ten. She had struggled with leukemia since she was two and finally it was too much. The last time I saw her was just a month before she died as she became my daughter Nancy's godmother. She loved babies and now she had one of her own. During her last night she and her Mommie Diana were in Tanna's bed. They talked most of the night and she even told her Mom three jokes. Toward morning she sent her Mom to bed and she passed on. I was her babysitter for much of those eight years and loved her dearly.
The following is a poem written by a family friend named Dorothy Griffin.
IN MEMORY OF TANNA BUTLER
God has called another loved one home, a special darling child.
Who taught us all so many things, with her tender love so mild.
Tanna carried a burden most of her life that must have made her heart feel faint.
But she accepted her illness graciously, just as though she was a saint.
With laughing eyes and a smile so sweet, she never did complain---
But tried to brighten all our lives, though she was the one in pain.
Tanna adored her loving parents and he gentle brother Todd,
She thought her grandma special, this wonderous child of God.
That household must have been special with an angel living there,
Who talked about her future plans, as though she hadn't a care.
Trying to hide her pain from them, for acting she developed a flair,
As she kept right on smiling to save them from dispair.
Bible school meant much to her, for she met her Jesus there,
This year she couldn't be there, it wasn't in God's plan,
But I know she never lost her faith as Jesus held her hand.
This angel was my special friend, who taught me humility,
And I will hold her memory close, for she'll always be with me.
When our pain grows a little dimmer as we think of the one we adored,
We'll know Tanna was a gift of God, loaned to her parents by our Lord.
Beloved daughter of Robert and Diana Butler and brother Todd.
Tanna Lee Butler died a month before she was ten. She had struggled with leukemia since she was two and finally it was too much. The last time I saw her was just a month before she died as she became my daughter Nancy's godmother. She loved babies and now she had one of her own. During her last night she and her Mommie Diana were in Tanna's bed. They talked most of the night and she even told her Mom three jokes. Toward morning she sent her Mom to bed and she passed on. I was her babysitter for much of those eight years and loved her dearly.
The following is a poem written by a family friend named Dorothy Griffin.
IN MEMORY OF TANNA BUTLER
God has called another loved one home, a special darling child.
Who taught us all so many things, with her tender love so mild.
Tanna carried a burden most of her life that must have made her heart feel faint.
But she accepted her illness graciously, just as though she was a saint.
With laughing eyes and a smile so sweet, she never did complain---
But tried to brighten all our lives, though she was the one in pain.
Tanna adored her loving parents and he gentle brother Todd,
She thought her grandma special, this wonderous child of God.
That household must have been special with an angel living there,
Who talked about her future plans, as though she hadn't a care.
Trying to hide her pain from them, for acting she developed a flair,
As she kept right on smiling to save them from dispair.
Bible school meant much to her, for she met her Jesus there,
This year she couldn't be there, it wasn't in God's plan,
But I know she never lost her faith as Jesus held her hand.
This angel was my special friend, who taught me humility,
And I will hold her memory close, for she'll always be with me.
When our pain grows a little dimmer as we think of the one we adored,
We'll know Tanna was a gift of God, loaned to her parents by our Lord.
Tanna Lee Butler died a month before she was ten. She had struggled with leukemia since she was two and finally it was too much. The last time I saw her was just a month before she died as she became my daughter Nancy's godmother. She loved babies and now she had one of her own. During her last night she and her Mommie Diana were in Tanna's bed. They talked most of the night and she even told her Mom three jokes. Toward morning she sent her Mom to bed and she passed on. I was her babysitter for much of those eight years and loved her dearly.
The following is a poem written by a family friend named Dorothy Griffin.
IN MEMORY OF TANNA BUTLER
God has called another loved one home, a special darling child.
Who taught us all so many things, with her tender love so mild.
Tanna carried a burden most of her life that must have made her heart feel faint.
But she accepted her illness graciously, just as though she was a saint.
With laughing eyes and a smile so sweet, she never did complain---
But tried to brighten all our lives, though she was the one in pain.
Tanna adored her loving parents and he gentle brother Todd,
She thought her grandma special, this wonderous child of God.
That household must have been special with an angel living there,
Who talked about her future plans, as though she hadn't a care.
Trying to hide her pain from them, for acting she developed a flair,
As she kept right on smiling to save them from dispair.
Bible school meant much to her, for she met her Jesus there,
This year she couldn't be there, it wasn't in God's plan,
But I know she never lost her faith as Jesus held her hand.
This angel was my special friend, who taught me humility,
And I will hold her memory close, for she'll always be with me.
When our pain grows a little dimmer as we think of the one we adored,
We'll know Tanna was a gift of God, loaned to her parents by our Lord.
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