Harry King Buttermore JR.

Harry King Buttermore, Jr. of Charlotte and Atlanta, died on October 4, 2016 at the age of 97. He was born on July 15, 1919 in Connellsville, Pa., the third of seven children of Harry King Buttermore, Sr., M.D. and Nell Kathryn Martin Buttermore. In 1921, the family moved from Pennsylvania to Liggett, Harlan County, Ky. where Dr. Buttermore became the company physician for the Liggett Coal Company at the dawn of the coal industry in Harlan. Harry and his siblings grew up in an idyllic rural community. They had free run of the mountains to hunt squirrels, fish, hike, play baseball and gather blackberries. The road from Liggett to the county seat was so rough that some of the Buttermore children stayed at an apartment in town during the school year, returning to Liggett on weekends. Harry’s family was one that helped others. His father delivered more than 5,000 babies in his general and surgical practice and received many patients in his home office. He made many house calls, often accompanied by Harry and...