MACON [ndash] Kathie Butler Coleman, 66, passed away surrounded by her loving family on Saturday, Jan. 7, 2023, at Baptist Memorial Hospital, Golden Triangle. Funeral services were held Monday, Jan. 9, 2023, at 3 p.m., at Soul Harbor Pentecostal Church in Shuqualak. Interment followed in Butler Cemetery. Cockrell Funeral Home was honored to be entrusted with the arrangements.

Kathie Butler Coleman was born in Macon, Miss. Feb. 18, 1956, to the late John Astor and Elsie Earline Eaves Butler. She grew up in the Butler Community in Noxubee County. Kathie attended public schools in Shuqualak and later at Nanih Waiya. She worked as a bookkeeper for many years in Texas and Louisiana. Kathie returned to Mississippi where she worked several jobs that she especially enjoyed including Hancock's, Jack's, and Macon Stockyard. She attended Soul Harbor Pentecostal Church in Shuqualak. Kathie loved to fish, spend time with her grandchildren and cook for the entire community. She was known for her quick wit and will be sorely missed by all of her family and her many friends.

Kathie was preceded in death by her parents and three of her siblings: Betty Ann McBrayer, Malcomb McBrayer, and Frances Butler.

Kathie is survived by her significant other, Nowell Flake of Shuqualak; beloved daughter, Christy Coleman Griffin, Shuqualak; two sisters, Myrtis White of Shuqualak, and Sharon Permenter, Pine Springs; and her beloved three grandchildren: Justin White, Raelee White, and Clara Griffin.

Memorials may be made to Mississippi Kidney Foundation, 3304 N. State St., Jackson, MS 39216.