HR229 Summary

• House resolution mourning the death of Taylor Jace "T.J." Butts of Atalla, Alabama, who died on April 7, 2015, at age 26.

• T.J. graduated from Etowah County High School in 2007, was an Etowah County Junior Golf Champion, received a golf scholarship to the University of Montevallo, and transferred to the University of Alabama where he managed the Women's Basketball Team and served as assistant basketball coach at Gadsden State Community College.

• T.J. was a member of Harvestfield Church, worked as supervisor at Farm Systems, and recently achieved his lifelong dream of purchasing his own farm.

• The resolution honors T.J.'s memory and extends heartfelt sympathy to his parents John and Staci Butts, grandparents, great-grandparents, chosen brother Randy Dupree, and other surviving family members and friends.