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Name: Hilda Butler
Three words to describe yourself: "I'm a good nut", happy, cheerful
Hilda was born and raised in Oconee, GA and has been in the Athens area since 1962, when she married her husband when she was 20 years old. Her husband of 48 years of marriage passed away last year, and he pastored the same church for 41 years. She was the only child in her family to graduate from High School and is also the youngest of her five siblings. Hilda's dad passed away when she was five years old from a drowning accident, but she has "always had an adult figure in [her] life". Whenever she finds old pictures of her father, she restores them and gives them to her siblings. She has two adopted sons and three grandchildren (so far!), and her grandchildren are the most important things in her life because she receives "unconditional love" from them.  If she could travel anywhere in the world, she would go to Hawaii or go on a cruise to Alaska. Hilda loves her job working at Bolton Dining Hall because she loves meeting college students and  
enjoys talking and learning about people.