Mildred Butler Laycock

SERVICES: Memorial services will be 2:00 PM Friday, March 6, 2009 in Carmichael-Whatley Colonial Chapel with Rev. Doug DuBose, Baptist minister, officiating. Arrangements are by Carmichael-Whatley Funeral Directors.BIOGRAPHY: Mrs. Laycock was born in Wellington, Texas to Elizabeth and Frank Slough. She graduated from Wellington High School and attended Mary Hardin Baylor College in Belton, Texas. After working two years at the Agricultural Extension Office in the Collingsworth County Courthouse, she attended North Texas State College at Denton, Texas. She worked for a time in an Amarillo law office for her uncle, Judge Elmer Slough. Mildred married Charles P. Butler and because he had a southern background, they were transferred to Atlanta, Georgia and then to Clemson, South Carolina. She took Real Estate classes at the University of South Carolina and was the first woman in the state of South Carolina to get a Real Estate license and become a broker. Mildred helped to develop two subdivisions there, Highland Estates and Ashley Estates, and named the streets, using a study of South Carolina history in that selection. She was president of the Tri-County Board of Realtors, a member of the Pickens County, South Carolina Planning and Development Commission, the Clemson First Baptist Church and the Clemson College Woman's Club. In late 1975, Mildred married Dr. Raymond W. Laycock whom she had known in college. In Pampa, she belonged to the Top O' Texas Medical Auxiliary, Pampa Environmental Beautification Committee, Pampa Chamber of Commerce Membership Committee, Twentieth Century Club and the First Baptist Church.SURVIVORS: Husband: Dr. Raymond W. Laycock of the home; 1 son: Charles P. Butler, Jr. and wife Miriam of Greenville, South Carolina; 2 daughters: Betty Butler Heath of Hickory, North Carolina, and Julia Butler Eakes of Washington, DC; 6 grandchildren; 4 great grandchildren; 1 stepdaughter: Chris Lemons of New Braunfels, Texas, and 1 step great granddaughter. MEMORIALS: First Baptist Church, P.O. Box 621, Pampa, Texas 79066-0621, First Baptist Church, 397 College Ave., Clemson, South Carolina 29631, BSA Hospice, 800 N. Sumner, Pampa, Texas 79065, or a charity of one's choice.