A celebration of Butch’s life will be held on Friday, February 12, 2021 at 2pm in the Griggs Schooler Gordon Funeral Director’s Pioneer Chapel, 5400 Bell St with Greg Corona Presiding. A livestream of the service will be available at www.facebook.com/GriggsSchoolerGordon should you not be able to or wish not to attend the service in person.
Butch Burcham was born In Phoenix Arizona on November 30, 1953. He graduated from Scottsdale High in 1971. Butch excelled in all sports, broke a few bones and always played to the max.
Butch and Bernadette met on a blind date in April of 1973, married in July 1973 and moved to Denver where their first child was born the following June. Their next child was born after a move back to Phoenix in April 1976. His only Grandson was born in June of 2000 in Arizona. He loved his dogs Lucky and Bella. He provided for and protected his family for his entire life.
In 1980 he began his career in aerospace, working at Garrett, Allied Signal, and Honeywell in both Phoenix, AZ and North Carolina. He worked for Timken in New Hampshire and would move on to Bell Textron in Fort Worth, TX and finished at Bell Helicopter in Amarillo, TX. He was a natural leader and appreciated his job and the people he worked with.
Butch Loved the Lord, his Family, and Friends. He loved being outdoors, hiking, hunting, bungie jumping, metal detecting, gold panning and country music. Recently he bought an off road travel trailer and with his wife and children had plans for spending time on the dirt roads in the desert. He knew I-40 like the back of his hand, with many trips on the road back and forth, somewhat of a trucker at heart.
