Elsie Blanche Sutton

Elsie Blanche Fitz Randolph Sutton BIRTH 6 May 1881 Doddridge County, West Virginia, USA DEATH 27 Mar 1962 (aged 80) Boulder, Boulder County, Colorado, USA BURIAL Mountain View Memorial Park Boulder, Boulder County, Colorado

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Children Photo Okey Loren Sutton 1910–1910

"The Sabbath Recorder", Vol 172, No 16, p 16, Apr. 16, 1962. Elsie Blanche Sutton was born on Greenbrier Run, near Salem, West Virginia, May 5, 1881. She was the seventh child of a family of eight born to Judson and Mary Elizabeth Morris FitzRandolph.

Because of the age of her father, and the inability of her younger brother to any longer do the work, the farm where she was born was rented, and the four still at home moved to Salem. Here she was for a time employed in a large grocery and later as a clerk for a brother-in-law, who was county assessor.

On October 5, 1905, she was married to Erlo E. Sutton, then a public school teacher in West Virginia. Later he entered the Gospel ministry in the Seventh Day Baptist church and they went to Rhode Island for their first pastorate, serving successively in Andover and Little Genesee, N. Y.; Shiloh, N. J.; Milton Junction, Wis.; Denver and Boulder, Colo., where they retired and built a home.

She was deeply interested in the work of the church, especially with children, helping to organize and supervise group and closely graded work in Bible schools. After her son and daughter were married, she traveled extensively in the U. S. with her husband, who for several years was executive secretary of Religious Education for the denomination in the U. S.

Mrs. Sutton, after a long illness, died at the Boulder Memorial Hospital, March 27. A memorial service was conducted in the Howe Mortuary by Pastor Mynor G. Soper and interment was in the Mountain View Cemetery.

She is survived by her husband, Rev. Erlo E. Sutton; a son, Rev. Trevah Sutton of El Paso, Texas; a daughter, Mrs. Robert (Gladys) Fitz-Randolph of Arvada, Colo.; 3 grandchildren, Mrs. Ted (Roberta) Hansen and Linn Fitz-Randolph of Denver, and Judith Sutton of El Paso, Tex.; and 2 great-grandsons. M. S.