Butler Shaffer, R.I.P.

My husband, Butler DeLane Shaffer, died of prostate cancer at 3:28 pm on Sunday, December 29. He had a peaceful transition surrounded by family and love, in a wonderful Burbank hospital where he had been a patient several times. He always looked forward to their practice of playing lullaby chimes throughout the hospital when a baby is born, We were with him for his last breath, his last heartbeat. And an hour later the western sky gave us its most beautiful sunset ever, all purple (his...