Bart Edward Butler

Bart Edward Butler, 71, of Winona, died Wednesday, September 28 at Mayo Clinic Hospital/St. Mary's Campus.
Born May 15, 1945 in Yankton, SD, to Thomas and Laura (Hirschman) Butler, Bart graduated from Yankton High School in 1963 and attended South Dakota State University in Brookings. After college, he married Karen Burbach and the couple moved to Los Angeles, CA.
In Los Angeles, Bart worked at National Cash Register (later known as NCR). A natural with anything mechanical, Bart was hired at NCR to repair cash registers, but was soon working with what was then a brand new technology: the computer. With his career taking off, Bart and Karen moved to Minneapolis, MN, to be closer to their families in Nebraska and South Dakota.
In Minneapolis, Bart started his own company, Chek It Inc. From 1985 to 2007 at Chek It, Bart designed and built computer systems for dairies in the Midwest, California and Puerto Rico that weighed, printed and labeled milks, cheeses and other dairy products. To this day, numerous supermarkets across the country stock dairy products that are weighed and labeled on the machines that Bart built.
Bart and Karen had one son, Jason, and later divorced in 1977. In 1986, Bart and Kathy Seery began dating, marrying in 2009 and later divorcing. At the time of his death, Bart was seeing Irene Brandt.
Bart was an avid fan of motorcycles, snowmobiles, boats, cars, traveling and auto racing.
He is survived by his son, Jason Butler of Los Angeles, CA; sister, Sharie Eickhoff of Orange County, CA; brother, Dean Butler of Orange County, CA; special friend, Irene Brandt of Winona; former spouses, Karen Butler-Moore of Plymouth, MN, and Kathy Butler of New Hampton, IA; and many nieces and nephews.
Bart was preceded in death by his parents and a nephew, Brian Eickhoff.
Funeral Service will be at 2 p.m., Sunday, October 2 at Hoff Celebration of Life Center in Goodview, with visitation beginning at 1 p.m. and lasting until the time of the service.
Please share a memory of Bart, sign his online guestbook and view his video tribute when it becomes available at www.hofffuneral.com. In lieu of flowers, memorials preferred to the Mayo Clinic, Cardiovascular Research (https://philanthropy.mayoclinic.org/).