Jeff Butler was my friend. We met on the first day of school at White Rock Junior High School in 1980 when we were both new students there, and an administrative error left us without a home room class to go to. We were standing outside waiting for the problem to get resolved, and we quickly started talking about where we came from, where we lived now, and most importantly, hockey. That started a friendship that I still think about today. Jeff was a fantastic hockey player and his Seafair stories fascinated me. We once tried to do maintenance and repairs on his dirt bike in my garage, we beach combed Semiahmoo Bay looking for floats and we often hung out at his place on Marine Drive. We listened to Face Dances by the Who, and we were always laughing. I was lucky to have a friend as special as Jeff. It was a relatively short friendship, but it was absolute and deep.  I miss you Jeff, and I’m glad to this day to have met you on that blue skyed September morning in 1980.

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Jeffrey Richard Butler

June 25, 1967 – September 14, 1985

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