This newsletter edition shines on Finnie Jarrett Butts, the daughter of Walter & Janet Jarrett from Samson, Alabama. Finnie was the youngest in a family of 16 children. As an advanced student, at the age of 16, she attended Ohio State University and majored in Psychology, Sociology, and English. After graduating she worked as a Sociology teacher and clerk typist. While working she began discovering her desire to be a nurse and continued her education at Mansfield General Hospital School of Nursing. While at O.S.U. she met and married Leon Gerald Butts. She has three children; Walter, Diane, and Beverly; eight grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren! Walter graduated from Ohio State University with a Masters Degree in Business. Diane is a Certified Dietician and resides with her family in Tampa, Florida. Beverly was an Air Force Captain and later became a Police Officer, currently living in Phoenix and works with a computer home-based business.
Finnie commented, “living at Bethesda Gardens is like being at home. Everyone is so very nice and caring and from day one I felt welcomed.” Her current interests include Sew & More, Bingo, and the music of entertainers Michael James and Carole Kepner. Also fishing, dancing, weaving, writing children’s short stories, poems and songs and traveling the world.
Finnie would like to share her inspirational prayer that she recites every morning. “Dear Father God as I wake this morning, I will put on the helmet of salvation, the breastplate of righteousness, loins girded with the sword of truth, and my feet shod with the Gospel of Peace. Dear Lord, thank you for your goodness and mercy and may your will be done.”
