Ar Ernest Sutton
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Eagle Valley Enterprise page 18 - April 10, 1997
Arthur Ernest Sutton, a long time Eagle County resident passed away March 21 at the Health Care Center of Gunnison. Born Sept. 6, 1911 in Sheephorn, Colo. to Ernest and Celia Sutton, the family moved to Sweetwater on the ranch of Aurthur's grandparents. There Arthur and his sister Alyse, attended a one-room school, a six-mile trip on horseback. He completed the 8th grade. The Suttons moved to a farm on the Colorado River. In 1942 after his father's death he moved to Portland, Oregan where worked the Swan Island Shipyard. After the war, returned to Colorado to take care of his widow mother, and he began to work for the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad in 1953. Arthur never married, helping his mother raise two of his sister's children, nephew Ivan and niece Orilla.
