Death and Family
Slaughter died in 1985 at age 82. After learning of Slaughter's death, Joe Palumbo, captain of Virginia's 1951 football team said: "I best remember Butch Slaughter as a prince among men. Above all else he expected his players to play fair both on and off the field. The players all loved him. He is one in a million."
Slaughter's daughter, Mary Slaughter, became the first woman to play a varsity sport at the University of Virginia in 1954. There were no women's athletic teams at Virginia at that time, and she joined the men's tennis team and won the Women's Eastern Intercollegiate title. Slaughter's son, Edward R. Slaughter, Jr., became a lawyer and served in 1978 as the president of the Virginia Bar Association.
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