The service of paperwork for an Order of Protection against the mayor of Marion’s daughter was little but a blip on the screen back in May…but the waves it sent out have been numerous and varied.
And, apparently, they’re still rippling.
Disclosure learned yesterday that Beth Butler, daughter of Marion mayor Bob Butler, was up for an appointment on a hospital board, but because of the bizarre situation surrounding the Order of Protection that a West Frankfort minister took out against her, then dismissed on the same day, that appointment suggestion fizzled.
And when you read the next Read the Lead, you’ll fully understand why.
Here now is your noontime RTL, OP filed against mayor’s daughter:
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Beth Butler
WILLIAMSON/FRANKLIN COs.—A strange little matter has hit home for a strange little person from Williamson County in Franklin County.
Beth Butler, 57, daughter of too-long-in-office Marion mayor Bob Butler, had a Stalking/No-Contact Order (civil Order of Protection, or, OP) filed against her in Franklin County by a local minister who claimed in the paperwork that the strange little woman was following her and causing a lot of grief in the minister’s life.
The minister is Sheryl Black, of Whittington. Black is a priest for St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in West Frankfort, as well as the spiritual care manager and chaplain at Herrin Hospital, having served in that capacity for a couple of years.
That hospital is the one where Butler has been volunteering, and where she first came to know Black.
And according to paperwork filed in Franklin County Circuit Court on May 21, their encounters were apparently more to Butler than they were to Black; the strange little mayor’s daughter apparently developed a crush of sorts on the minister, and, apparently learning that her feelings were unreciprocated, began conducting herself in a way that alarmed Black so much, she felt compelled to take out the OP against Butler.
In the petition for the OP, Black outlined what had been happening….
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