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Forummaster
Moderator
Username: Forummaster
Post Number: 536
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Monday, January 10, 2011 - 10:31 am: | 
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Lonnie Butler(Tech808) passed away yesterday. Lonnie was a good friend.
This is a sad day for the cb and ham community we have lost one of our best.
He was a mainstay of the forum. He was always helpful. I will miss him greatly.
Lonnie and Shirley back together again may God keep the sun on their faces and the wind at their backs.
Forummaster
CEF001
CVC001
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Sitm
Intermediate Member
Username: Sitm
Post Number: 355
Registered: 1-2004
| | Posted on Monday, January 10, 2011 - 1:09 pm: |
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Semper Fi my fellow Marine. |
Milkman21218
Intermediate Member
Username: Milkman21218
Post Number: 456
Registered: 1-2004
| | Posted on Monday, January 10, 2011 - 1:36 pm: |
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He will be missed by many. And he'll always hold a very speccial place in my heart. It's because of him I am a Ham today. We will miss you Lon.
Izzy
CEF#502
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Moderator1516
Moderator
Username: Moderator1516
Post Number: 2605
Registered: 8-2005
| | Posted on Monday, January 10, 2011 - 2:05 pm: |
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i am very sorry to hear this:i feel like i have lost a very dear friend.
gayle
moderator1516
cef#0139/cvc#0012
ham#0147-ki4kxl
aka:skilletlicker
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Keithinatlanta
Advanced Member
Username: Keithinatlanta
Post Number: 903
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Monday, January 10, 2011 - 2:36 pm: |
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Skilletlicker, I think you sum it up best for all of us. He was a friend. And as a marine, he helped protect us as Americans.
The very best to Lon and Shirley.
Keith in Atlanta
CEF 150 |
Doc_holliday
Junior Member
Username: Doc_holliday
Post Number: 30
Registered: 6-2007
| | Posted on Monday, January 10, 2011 - 3:28 pm: |
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R.I.P. SEMPER FI!!!!!!!
Radio Tech since 1987!
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Tech858
Moderator
Username: Tech858
Post Number: 361
Registered: 10-2007
| | Posted on Monday, January 10, 2011 - 4:33 pm: |
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I only knew Lon for a few years but in that time we became good friends and his passing is sad news to us over here in Scotland , he will be missed by all of us but we are comforted by the thought that he will be reunited with Shirley again .
Tech858/Jim
CEF#0858 ~ CEF HAM#0230
CVC#0116 ~ MM0TXO
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Moderator120
Moderator
Username: Moderator120
Post Number: 672
Registered: 11-2006
| | Posted on Monday, January 10, 2011 - 5:39 pm: |
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Well I am very sad to hear the news, Lon has been a dear close friend of mine for many years. he has been there through allot with me, and I with him. We have lost a great one, and he can never be replaced. I will see you and Shirley one day my friend, I will miss!
Mike 
Moderator120
CEF#0120/HAM #222
KB1NYD
CVC#0041
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Rosebud
Junior Member
Username: Rosebud
Post Number: 21
Registered: 8-2004
| | Posted on Monday, January 10, 2011 - 8:57 pm: |
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Its with a very very heavy heart as i post this. Lon and Shirley was very dear friends of ours. Lon gave everthing to help and was devoted member of Copper. Iv known for some time that Lon time on earth was short. But the news is still shocking. Infact i thought of him yesterday for some reason? Lon is a silent key. It hurts real bad to type this. I will miss him.
Lon and Shirley You are the best iv known and been a real pleasure to meet you. Take Care my very dear freinds . See you later
I also want to thank Jim Tech858 for letting me know what happen.
Hal
Moderator 136
Rosie (Rosebud)
CEF# 222
CVC# 5
kc0tdk
Ham # 48
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Vanillagorilla
Senior Member
Username: Vanillagorilla
Post Number: 1090
Registered: 4-2005
| | Posted on Monday, January 10, 2011 - 9:21 pm: |
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Been too long since I stopped by...then I read this.
Will miss you Lon.
Hank~CEF559/CEFHAM242
Eastern Long Island NY
KC2RIW
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Moderator120
Moderator
Username: Moderator120
Post Number: 673
Registered: 11-2006
| | Posted on Monday, January 10, 2011 - 9:45 pm: |
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Hal: Glad to see you post, sorry it was for such a sad reason.
Hank: Same for you, been to long my friend.
Mike
Moderator120
CEF#0120/HAM #222
KB1NYD
CVC#0041
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Ironmike
Junior Member
Username: Ironmike
Post Number: 44
Registered: 6-2007
| | Posted on Monday, January 10, 2011 - 11:03 pm: |
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Terrible. |
Watt
Junior Member
Username: Watt
Post Number: 46
Registered: 1-2004
| | Posted on Monday, January 10, 2011 - 11:39 pm: |
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Lon I wish I would of met you in person. I only knew you here on the fourm. You now know who I really am. You will be missed dearly here on copper talk. Take care my friend. I will shoot a little DX for ya. --... ...-- ...-.- .. |
Starface
Senior Member
Username: Starface
Post Number: 2960
Registered: 1-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 11, 2011 - 4:54 pm: |
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We should not be sad that Lon and Shirley is no longer with us here on earth, You want to see them again? Live your lives well and you and I will unite with them again in a much better place.
Yes they will be missed by many of us.
We must all get along well and keep Copper alive and well for them as that is what they would want.
They left Copper for us to enjoy, We shall laugh in good times and always be thinking of them.
They help build this forum for us and we all made many great friends along the way.
Some of us have even met eye to eye and become great friends, Something that would of never happen if it wasn't for Lon building this forum.
We have a lot to thank him for.
Thank You Lonnie and Shirley.
You well be missed but never forgot my Friends
George/Starface/KI4NBE
PS. Forumaster (Chester) Please if you would let his family know to put him as a SK on the FCC/QRZ.com TY
N9CEF/SK
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Tech565
Moderator
Username: Tech565
Post Number: 398
Registered: 7-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 11, 2011 - 7:58 pm: |
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myself an amber are SAD to hear of this news. I have been so busy that I did not get to call him  R.I.P Lon
Tech565
CVC#38
Ham#243
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Redman
New member
Username: Redman
Post Number: 6
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 11, 2011 - 7:37 pm: |
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cef 156 checkin in |
Vanillagorilla
Senior Member
Username: Vanillagorilla
Post Number: 1093
Registered: 4-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 11, 2011 - 9:23 pm: |
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Sorry...Just browsing again and JUST learned of Shirley as well....speechless..a total loss for words. So sorry I missed all this..they will both be missed. All I can think about is the laughs we all had on that Voice chat thing since the beginning...what was that thing about milking penquins again Izzy? Or was it polar bears? I still remember my eyes tearing for hours that night...Hal was no help!
George is right..someday we'll all see each other face to face in a much better place~
73 my friends Lon&Shirley
(anybody ELSE I should know about!?)
Hank~CEF559/CEFHAM242
Eastern Long Island NY
KC2RIW
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Slim1
Intermediate Member
Username: Slim1
Post Number: 159
Registered: 4-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 12, 2011 - 7:42 pm: |
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Thoughts & prayers to the family. You will surely be missed Lon! Thank you for EVERYTHING sir. Now enjoy your eternal life with Shirley ;-) |
Forummaster
Moderator
Username: Forummaster
Post Number: 537
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, January 13, 2011 - 11:30 am: |
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Lon's Obituary
BLOOMINGTON — Lonnie Ray Butler, 59, Bloomington, passed away peacefully on Sunday (Jan. 9, 2011) at the McLean County Nursing Home in Normal. He will now join his loving wife of 35 years Shirley, who passed away on July 30, 2010.
Graveside service for Lonnie will be 10 a.m. Thursday at East Lawn Memorial Gardens in Bloomington, with Stephanie Soon, OSF Hospice Chaplain, officiating.
Memorials may be made to The Community Cancer Center.
Lonnie was a loving father and grandfather who will be sadly missed.
Online condolences can be made to the family at www.kiblersmith.com.
Forummaster
CEF001
CVC001
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Tech237
Moderator
Username: Tech237
Post Number: 1398
Registered: 4-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, January 13, 2011 - 11:35 am: |
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Sempi Fi. Sorry to hear this news, but I guess to most of watching Lon over the last couple of years not unexpected.
RIP Lon, enjoy the great DX there
Tech237
N7AUS
God only made some many perfect head, on the rest he put hair.
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Press_man
Intermediate Member
Username: Press_man
Post Number: 179
Registered: 5-2008
| | Posted on Thursday, January 13, 2011 - 12:48 pm: |
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My family and I want to express our fellings of loss! While we may not have known Lon and Shirley personally, we did enjoy reading all their postings which displayed a small insight into who they were. We still have all those postings right here on this forum to keep them alive in our hearts.
Wally/Pressman/KC4ZWM
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Moderator1516
Moderator
Username: Moderator1516
Post Number: 2611
Registered: 8-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, January 13, 2011 - 5:03 pm: |
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thank you :
forummaster for the infromation
moderator1516
cef#0139/cvc#0012
ham#0147-ki4kxl
aka:skilletlicker
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Starface
Senior Member
Username: Starface
Post Number: 2964
Registered: 1-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, January 13, 2011 - 5:52 pm: |
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thank you :
forummaster for the infromation |
Wildchild
Intermediate Member
Username: Wildchild
Post Number: 135
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, January 13, 2011 - 10:27 pm: |
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Sure hate to hear about Lons passing. |
Jgreene613
New member
Username: Jgreene613
Post Number: 5
Registered: 12-2010
| | Posted on Saturday, January 15, 2011 - 4:37 am: |
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thats awful to hear , been reading thru the post for a little while . .. my dad passed away oct 29 2010 after battling throat cancer for almost 3 years . he was a marine also . he served his county in viet nam 66-67 where he was wounded in action . and also sprayed with the chemical agent orange which caused him to get the cancer just wondering if lon cancer problems was also caused by agent orange ? |
Dale
Senior Member
Username: Dale
Post Number: 1677
Registered: 12-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, January 15, 2011 - 5:01 pm: |
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i was just scrolling thru and read this
cant believe it. so sorry. lon will be missed
dearly
dale/a.k.a.hotrod
cef426
cvc#64
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Revpo
Advanced Member
Username: Revpo
Post Number: 567
Registered: 7-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, January 15, 2011 - 8:38 pm: |
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Lon will certainly be missed, I meant him and his wife a number of years ago going to Louisville, Ky., and chatted with them for 30 or 40 minutes, both are missed a loss to the radio community.
REVPO/CEF795
73
REVPO/DOCTOR/CEF 795
Wavin a hand from the cornfields of INDIANA
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Tech291
Moderator
Username: Tech291
Post Number: 539
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Monday, February 07, 2011 - 2:15 am: |
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This is the first time I have been able to log into the forum in a very long time.As late as it may be I offer my condolences to the family.Lon and Shirley were very good friends and will be missed.They brought much to the forum and put alot of effort into its smooth operation.You'll be missed Ole'Friend,r.i.p. |
Streaky
Intermediate Member
Username: Streaky
Post Number: 289
Registered: 3-2006
| | Posted on Monday, February 07, 2011 - 3:28 pm: |
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haven't been here in a long time. Lon you will be missed my friend. Rest in peace Lon .
Streaky
CEF#805
CVC#98
WorldRadio805
The Craziest Station in the Canadian Nation
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Billsimcox
Junior Member
Username: Billsimcox
Post Number: 19
Registered: 1-2010
| | Posted on Friday, February 18, 2011 - 6:10 am: |
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RIP Lon
While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil. ~John Taylor |
Mikefromms
Senior Member
Username: Mikefromms
Post Number: 1101
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Friday, March 11, 2011 - 10:35 pm: |
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Well,well, Lon was such a major part of copper forum. I know he personally e-mailed me on several occasions and always had helpful advise. Sometimes he would get your attention if you got a little bit off base with your radio logic...I had no idea he was that sick. Life is so full of mysteries. He will be missed. He was the number one Tech as far as I'm concerned. Wow.. |
Kirk
Intermediate Member
Username: Kirk
Post Number: 345
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 19, 2011 - 11:05 am: |
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As another had said, I don't get out much. Last I was here I had read the sad news of Shirley passing. Now I see that Lon has passed. It's funny how time passes and seems like we don't have time for this and that. And then, we're gone. Back a few years ago, I was on this forum everyday. And Lon was a huge part of that! I don't suspect I'll get out here any more than I have....an occasional look every few months...but I did want to pass on my condolences to the remaining family. It sounded as if Lon did what he loved to do in life and probably lost a majority of the reason for living when Shirley passed. Heaven will be a wonderful place when we get there. Maybe the good Lord will have radios for us to play on when we get there. One never knows. God Bless you Lon and your wonderful wife. Till we meet again. ...-.- |
Jon666
Intermediate Member
Username: Jon666
Post Number: 406
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, May 12, 2011 - 7:40 pm: |
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wow very sorry to hear this. i have not been on here in a few years.r.i.p my friend. |
Navyrebel782003
Intermediate Member
Username: Navyrebel782003
Post Number: 288
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Friday, February 03, 2012 - 1:24 pm: |
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I have been gone for a long time and then saw a post about Lon, then found this, I'm speechless to say the least, Lon was a great guy and huge help with this site and copper in general, like has been said though, he's finally home and with his wife again, which I also didn't know about until now. RIP from a fellow service member.
James
CEF#590
CVC#49
Va Beach, VA
"If you cant be good, be good at it"
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Bluewolf
New member
Username: Bluewolf
Post Number: 7
Registered: 12-2011
| | Posted on Saturday, February 04, 2012 - 11:42 am: |
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I met Lon here on this forum many years ago and it turned in to a vey good friendship. We talked on the phone all the time. I lost a very good friend and a fellow marine He has a special place in my heart and one day we will unite once again. SEMPER FI MY FRIEND!!!!!!!! |
Mikefromms
Senior Member
Username: Mikefromms
Post Number: 1110
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Monday, February 06, 2012 - 9:24 pm: |
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He never let on to us how sick he was. I didn't even know his wife was that sick. Still a shock after over a year. |
392
Intermediate Member
Username: 392
Post Number: 154
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Friday, February 10, 2012 - 9:07 am: |
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I was just reading one of his post a few days ago about coax, wondering where he went. I did not know he had passed. I did know Shirley passed. Lon always stepped up to help a fellow operator. I have been overseas myself until recently, but before I left I chatted with Lon often, what a great book of knowledge he was. RIP Lon and Shirley. Tim |
Road_warrior
Senior Member
Username: Road_warrior
Post Number: 2346
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, September 08, 2012 - 1:14 pm: |
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I've been gone a few years from the Copper forum and I'm very sad to hear this news. Right before I left the Copper forum I got to talk to Lon & Shirley a few times on the Sunday CEF nets...
May God rest there souls... |
