Victor Valley High's legendary coach Ollie Butler to be remembered
A ceremony will honor legendary Victor Valley High School basketball coach Ollie Butler, who died at 95, on Feb. 23.
The life of Oliver “Ollie” J. Butler, the legendary Victor Valley High School boys' basketball coach, will be celebrated during a special ceremony at the gymnasium he called his second home. The ceremony is scheduled at 1 p.
m. on Saturday, April 11, at Victor Valley High’s Keith Gunn Gym at 16500 Mojave Drive in Victorville. Those wanting to attend must register online by March 28 at forms.
gle/qpkHLP3SDWkKFoe69 . Instead of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to the Ollie Butler Scholarship Foundation, with more information provided at the event. Victor Valley High graduate Al Hom told the Daily Press that Butler was with his family in Kansas when the 95-year-old took his final breath on Feb.
23, the Daily Press reported. Hom also shared that Butler’s children, who live in Colorado and Kansas, planned the celebration of life ceremony in Victorville for their father. "He lived in Apple Valley and spent most of his time in Victorville, where he taught, coached and became a legend," Hom said.