May God bless you and your...
Debby, RIP. You are still loved and remembered. You gave me a blue bracelet. I love it and wear it often.
Loubna Youssef
February 18, 2025


Washington, Dc, Massachusetts
Deborah Schimmel Butterworth passed away on Saturday, Feb. 18. She was born Sept. 5, 1937 in Springfield, MA to David and Beatrice Schimmel. Deborah graduated from Springfield’s Technical High School before going on to Michigan State University for her BA in Fine Arts, where she was also a proud...
Read MoreDebby, RIP. You are still loved and remembered. You gave me a blue bracelet. I love it and wear it often.
Loubna Youssef
February 18, 2025
I met Debby for the first time with Charles and Gaby in 1980 when I was studying at the Graduate Institute, St. John's College, Mexico. Since then we met often in Cairo and DC. All the members of my family, my parents, brothers, later my husband and my friends met the Butterworths on very many occasions. She invited me and my husband to the comfort of their home and she always loved the times we spent together in Egypt. In 1983 when I studied at College Park, Maryland, I spent days with the...
Loubna Youssef
February 14, 2023 | Friend
Dear Debby, you are not forgotten, I still think about you every day,
Heloise Dupont-Nivet
February 14, 2023
I miss Debby, 'ma petite voisine' as I called her. She was a good and fun friend. She had a lovely voice, a great sense of humor and a great yearning for laugh and happiness. Her manners were of an other era, I savored it all in her company.
Heloise Dupont-Nivet
March 17, 2017 | Washington DC, DC
From high school to the present, Debbie was always a close friend to our family. A special person and dear friend. Rest in peace and condolences to the family.
Tom Moylan and family.
March 16, 2017
Debbie: You were such a very special person. I will miss you always. Rest in peace my friend.
Lisa-Marie Monsanto
March 15, 2017 | Washington, DC
I'm so sorry to learn that we have lost Debbie. She was such a wonderful teacher and devoted member of the GDS community. I will certainly miss her. Much love to Gaby.
Barbara Bitner
March 07, 2017 | Hilton Head, SC
Debbie's death was a surprise to me as we spoke by telephone a short time ago. We never did have that coffee date we planned.....and I am so sorry to have missed that time with my charming friend.
To her family: please notify Windjammers Unlimited so her circus band friends will be made aware of her passing.
Adrienne Cannon
March 04, 2017 | Springfield, VA
Very sad news to learn of Debbie's passing. I knew her from the late '60s and '70s as a kind, funny, friendly and intelligent lady. She and Chuck were among the smartest couples I have known in DC, a wonderful hostess and great conversationalist. RIP
Peter Bechtold
February 28, 2017 | Portland, OR