Mary Richard Magdeline PRUITT SUTTON

Bob
10 Apr 1911 Tyler, Pemiscot, MO
13 Sep 1982 Blytheville, MS, AR

Mary
Feb. 24, 1911 Dyer, TN
Jan. 26, 1980 Blytheville, MS, AR

Funeral services for Robert Lee Sutton, 72, were held Wednesday, September 15, at 2:00 at the First Baptist Church in Steele. Rev. Billy Skinner and Rev. Jim Doyle officiated.
Mr. Sutton was born April 10, 1910, at Tyler and died September 13, 1982, at the Chickasawba Hospital in Blytheville. He was a retired truck driver and a member of the First Baptist Church in Steele.
He leaves a friend, Katherine Doherty, of Steele; A nephew, Jimmy Sutton, of Belmont, Arizona, whom he raised; A niece, Mrs. Dean Haynes of Fort Meade, Florida, whom he raised; One step-son, James Ray, of Steele; One step-daughter, Mrs. Sylvia Waller, of Phoenix, Arizona; One brother, J.L. Sutton of Tyler; One sister, Mrs. Sylvia Patterson of Camden, Tennessee; and Other relatives and friends.
Active pallbearers were Jesse Edwards, Lewis Rogers, Earl Mosley, T.A. Haggard, Connie Frame, and Home Alexander.
Honorary pallbearers were J.W. Neil, J.W. Rinehart, Robert Carter, Jerry Terry, Bobby Powell, Eddie Gilbert, Ronnie Carlton, Wilburn Clark, Bill Smithson, C.B. Nance, and Johnnie Carter.
Burial was in the Mt. Zion Cemetery near Steele with the John W. German Funeral Home of Steele in charge.
Steele Enterprise - Steele, Missouri - September 23, 1982

Robert was called Uncle Bob by most of the family except for the children of Jimmy Sutton who called him "Pa" when his oldest son was learning to talk he couldn't say Grandpa but Robert loved the title more than any other he had. He was a quiet soft spoken and unassuming man who in his later years enjoyed his grandchildren and lounging in his recliner in the evenings.
Although Robert never had any children of his own he and Mary raised his brother's two children: Jimmy Lawrence Sutton from infancy when his mother left him with them while she took a trip to Texas where her husand was stationed in the armed service and never took him back and then after she died in 1958 they took in Linda Dean Sutton Haynes who was about 13 and they raised till she married.

Funeral service was held Monday, January 28, 1980, at the German-Aumon Funeral Home Chapel in Steele for Mrs. Mary Sutton, 68. The Rev. James F. McCrary conducted the service.
Mrs. Sutton was born February 24, 1911, in Dyer County, Tenn., and died January 26 at the Chickasawba Hospital in Blytheville.
She leaves her husband, Bob Sutton of the home; two daughters, Sylvia Waller of Phoenix, Ariz.; and Linda Dean Haynes, Fort Meade, Fla.; two sons, James Ray of Steele and Jimmy Lawrence Sutton of Flagstaff, Ariz. She also leaves 10 grandchildren and five great grandchildren.
Pallbearers were Jimmy Nance, Bill Smithson, Charles Jumper, Charles Allison, Jimmy Forbus and Danny Forbus.
Burial was in Mt. Zion Cemetery in Steele with the German-Aumon Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
Steele Enterprise - Steele, Missouri - January 31, 1980

Mary had been married once before when they married and had Sylvia and James Ray. She was a devoted mother and grandmother known as Granny to all her grandchildren even the children of Jimmy and Linda Dean Sutton who she consider as her own.
Mary and Robert raised Jimmy Lawrence Sutton from a infancy when his mother left him with them while she visited her husband then stationed in Texas and never took him back and then after she died in 1958 Linda Dean Haynes was taken in as well. , AR

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