A popular, in-demand toastmaster and after-dinner speaker in the Hollywood movie colony for many years, his good-natured jibes at Hollywood's elite are still quoted, and laughed at, among performers to this day.
Has one daughter, Kathleen.
He and his ex-wife Dorothy McFadden adopted a daughter together named Gayle.
He has two granddaughters named Natalie Galgano (born in 1985) and Angie Galgano (born in 1989).
He replaced Smiley Burnette as Gene Autry's sidekick during the 1940s. Later, they both worked on Paul Henning's Hooterville franchise ("Petticoat Junction" (1963) & "Green Acres" (1965)).
In 2007 Pat's daughter Kerry Buttram-Galgano passed away from cancer at the age of 52.
Interred at Maxwell Chapel, Haleyville, Alabama.
Joined WLS and the National Barn Dance in 1934. His dry wit and humor would allow him to spin all sorts of stories about his kin folk from down south. One of his self-appointed duties was to step on stage, snap his suspenders and announce to the audience that "...you can dance in the aisles and tear up the place if you want to - it don't belong to us!".
Pat and his first wife Dorothy McFadden adopted a daughter together named Gayle. When Buttram and McFadden divorced in 1945 McFadden never allowed Gayle to see Buttram again.
Uncle of John Buttram.
Was a guest at the 1980 Memphis Film Festival.