Florence butt biography

Many might associate South Texas with the popular grocery store chain, H-E-B. Whenever I was in Houston to visit my then-girlfriend (now wife), I certainly shopped at H-E-B due to its food quality and low prices.

This blog concerns the life and times of Florence Thornton Butt (), the mother of H-E-B&#;s former chief executive, Howard Edward Butt.

Florence Thornton was born on September 19, in Buena Vista, Mississippi. Raised in a religious community, she frequently spent her youthful years assisting her two pastor brothers in holding local revivals.

After basic schooling, the young girl enrolled in Clinton College and, as the only female in her class, graduated from the institution with the school&#;s highest honors.

After her college education, Thornton received a job at the local school and taught English there for several years.

In , she married Clarence C. Butt, a local and popular pharmacist. The couple lived in the Mississippi countryside before moving to Tennessee and final