Those we have lost but will never forget...
Deb Butterfield (Deborah Darrell Butterfield) 1960-2011
It is with tremendous sadness that I share news of the passing of a true pioneer within the diabetes online community, Deb Butterfield who authored the diabetes memoir "Showdown With Diabetes" [http://books.wwnorton.com/books/Showdown-with-Diabetes/] back in 1999. Deb is someone I considered a friend, and she was also a role model to many of us in the earlier days of the Diabetes Online Community. According to Bermuda's Royal Gazette online [http://www.royalgazette.com/article/20110907/NEWS/709079972/], she died on August 26, 2011 after a long illness near her home in St. Louis, MO. Deb was age 51, and she is survived by her husband Tom Wendel and their two daughters, as well as several siblings
Remembered by Scott Strumello and the diabetes online community.
