Mrs. Kay F. Butler, 100, of Amherst, died April 3, 2021. She was born June 28, 1920 in Germany, where she was raised and educated. In the 1940s she studied at the Universita per Stranieri in Perugia and at the Universita of Padua in Italy for the equivalent of a M.A. degree in modern languages and literature. In 1950 she immigrated to the United States, followed later by her mother and then her brother.

From 1955 – 1971 Mrs. Butler lived in Amherst where her husband, James W. Butler, was a professor at the University of Massachusetts, designing and managing the language laboratories in Bartlett and Herter Hall, until his death in 1969. She worked in the student counselor’s office at Amherst College from 1958 – 71, when she moved from Bologna, Italy, where she had been offered the job of registrar and admissions officer at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). She lived there until 1981 when she was asked by the Dean of SAIS to become his executive assistant at the school’s headquarters in Washington, D.C., where she retired in 1992. Until her death, she had lived in Amherst since 1999.

She is survived by her three granddaughters, Terry Lemeris Borst, Molly Lemeris and Sally Morton. She is also survived by her six great-grandchildren, Alex Borst, Patrick Borst, James Folta, Leigh Folta, Colin Morton and Lizzie Morton.