News has been received of the death of Deborah Darrell Butterfield, wife of Thomas Wendel and mother of Jessica and Nicole, in St Louis, Missouri. She was 51.Ms Butterfield died on August 26 after a long illness.She was the daughter of Nathanial (Nat) Butterfield, of South Carolina, and Sara L Jones, of Wyoming, and the sister to Blair Butterfield and Leslie Boyd.She is the author of “Showdown with Diabetes”, foreword by David ER Sutherland MD PhD, which is available through Amazon.com