Linda Faye Butier

Linda Faye Butier, a longtime resident of Watsonville, died on May 9, 2022. She was 76.

Linda was born on August 22, 1945, in Wasco, California to parents Lloyd Kinard and Trudie Launie. She was one of 5 children. The family later moved to Santa Cruz, where Linda would graduate from Santa Cruz High School in 1968. She met and married Jack Wilson in 1965 and together they raised their 2 children.

She worked as a bartender and waitress, co-owning the Sail Inn in Santa Cruz, then later at Lorraine's Packing Shed. In 1985, Linda married Michael Butier. Together they opened Michael's Bar & Grill, which was a very popular spot at the Watsonville Airport for many years.

Linda was a happy, loving person. She enjoyed her close friends, good food and even better wine and happily spent most of her retirement enjoying the people and things she loved most. She truly loved spending time with her grandchildren and great-grandchildren, whom she adored. She was an animal lover, having 2 very special dogs that she rescued over the years, Ellie and Foxie. She will be deeply missed by her loving family and many friends.

Linda is survived by her son, Jack Chopper Wilson, and her sisters, Ruth Stewart, and Ann Brown. She also leaves behind her grandchildren, Ashlyn Laduke, Ryan Whitley, and Michael, Brandon and Cori Wilson, as well as 10 great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband, Michael Butier, her daughter, Kara Whitley, and her brothers, Tommy & Eddie Kinard.

A Celebration of Life will be held at the Pajaro Valley Golf Club 967 Salinas Road, Royal Oaks, California on Saturday, December 10, 2022, from 4pm to 7pm.

Mehl's Colonial Chapel was entrusted with the funeral arrangements.

Published in The Pajaronian · December 9, 2022