VisionHealth Eye Care 1950-Present

Moniteau County, Missouri

VisionHealth Eye Care

Started by Charles Berdet Butts in 1950

Charles Newton Butts, CB Butts grandfather, operated B &B Optical in California from 1938-1950

From the 1980 History of Moniteau County

Dr Charles Newton Butts was born in Bedford, Iowa, in 1878 and married Mona Boucher in 1900. In 1916, Dr. Butts graduated from the school of Osteopathy in Kansas City. He continued his schooling and in 1918, he graduated from medical college. For 20 years, Dr. Butts practiced medicine and osteopathy in Kansas City, Kansas.

In 1938, he and his wife moved to a farm in Moniteau County and he established the B & B Optical Company in California, Missouri. He remained active in his office until 1950 when he retired and sold his practice to his grandson, Dr. Charles Berdet Butts, who was an O.D., and B & B Optical ceased to exist.

Dr. Charles Berdet Butts and his wife, Rosemary Purvis Butts, moved to California, Missouri, in 1950 and he practiced optometry there for 29 years. In 1979, Dr. Butts sold his practice to Dr. Don Vanderfeltz and moved to the Lake of the Ozarks.

On October 1, 1979, Don and Jean Vanderfeltz moved from Jefferson City to California after purchasing the Optometric practice of Dr. Butts. Don had opened a practice in Tipton beginning in March 1978.

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