Lowell James Sutton

1929 - 2013

BORN

1929

DIED

2013

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Schoedinger East

5360 E Livingston Avenue

Columbus, Ohio

Lowell Sutton Obituary

Name: Calling hours for Lowell James Sutton
Start: 2013-11-15T19:00:00.000Z
End: 2013-11-15T21:00:00.000Z
Location: Schoedinger East

Sutton Lowell James Sutton, age 84, passed away Friday, November 8, 2013. He was born February 2, 1929 in Glencoe, Ohio to the late Samuel and Margaret Sutton. He was a proud U.S. Army veteran who served in the Korean War. In addition to his parents, he is preceded in death by his wife Virginia and son James. Funeral service will be held 10:30 a.m. Saturday, November 16, 2013 at the SCHOEDINGER EAST CHAPEL, 5360 E. Livingston Ave., where the family will receive friends Friday from 2-4 and 6-8 p.m. Interment Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens. Contributions can be made to the American Heart Association, P.O. Box 15120, Chicago, IL 60693. To share online condolences visit www.schoedinger.com

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Published by The Columbus Dispatch from Nov. 14 to Nov. 16, 2013.

Memories and Condolences
for Lowell Sutton

8 Entries

Tina (Gloria C.) Letang, a Tulsa Okie now from Reynoldsburg, Ohio, since Au

March 3, 2025

Another thing I would like to add about Lowell Sutton is this personal account he related to me. When he was in Korea during the war, the U.S. Army used his skills as a hunter in far east Ohio and made him a sharpshooter. Lowell was assigned the night watch to look out for enemy soldiers. In Korea, Lowell would be camouflaged in the woods in the mountains all alone waiting for an enemy target. One moonless night, he was crouching in the totally silent darkness. He could not see the hand on his extended arm it was so incredibly black, like thick murky soup. All of a sudden as he stood and adjusted his eyes to extremely low light conditions, he found himself staring into the barely visible pale glint in the whites of the eyes of a Korean soldier standing so close he could have reached out with his arm and touched him. They stared at each other eye to eye in the silent darkness for what seemed like an eternity, but in truth was maybe a minute. This American soldier and the Korean soldier communicated to each other wordlessly. Neither man took up arms or challenged the other. They looked at each other knowingly via their souls acknowledging that they lived very differently lives far away from this war. Soon, they departed from each other quickly and quietly in some kind of knowing respect that only soldiers can wordlessly convey. The Korean War went on for years. There would be other nights when Lowell would wait patiently in the lonely countryside for another soldier, another patriot from another land conscripted to the world of the universal soldier, to fight a war that neither of them started.

Tina

November 20, 2020

I miss Lowell very much. He was a great friend. I also miss Virginia and Jimmy Sutton. R.I.P.

Bobbie Gregory

November 20, 2013

Lowell was one of the very best. A real musician and an era has passed. I loved Lowell and loved singing with his band.

November 18, 2013

I know that up in heaven, there is one heck of a Dixie Land jam session going on. Lowell, you were one of the good ones.

-Doug Boyd

creig,

November 15, 2013

I was a stundent of sut's in the early 80's in barber college he made every day fun and was one of a kind.What a great guy.

November 15, 2013

May your hearts continue to be filled with wonderful memories of joyful times together.

American Heart Association

November 14, 2013

May your memories of the wonderful times you shared with your loved one comfort you and your family, today and always.

Tina Letang

November 14, 2013

Lowell James Sutton was a strong, yet very lovable fellow, who would help anybody in a pinch. He lived with his grandparents while his mother (Margaret) worked in Cleveland after the divorce from his father. He was fluent in his grandmother's tongues (Polish and Russian) as a young man. His grandmother (a midwife and herbalist) helped him buy his first beat up old trumpet. He also played saxophone. He loved to play polkas and Dixieland music on his trumpet. Lowell's love of music drove him to play in bars and halls while still an underage teen. He was schooled in music by Johnny Dickerson while in Johnny's band. Lowell worked in coal mines in the St. Clairsville, OH area and drove trucks and heavy equipment. He was a Korean War veteran, and nearly lost his life many times during that war. He sought a better life for his family and moved to Whitehall, OH in the early 1960s. He later became a master barber and instructor at Ohio State School of Barbering, Columbus, OH from which he retired in the late 1990s after nearly 40 years service. He was followed to Columbus by his wife's cousin, Marcella Bibbee, and her husband Bill (saxophone and clarinet), who also played music with Lowell for decades, along with their son Mark (trumpet), who played in Sutt's band too. Lowell was a very talented musician and band arranger. I joined his band, "The Lowell J. Sutton Big Band," in August 1994. He was my musical inspiration and teacher. I worked alongside him to promote, catalog, and keep the band solid, along with his dear wife, Virginia. They were good, good people. I will always remember all the fun times. He had a great sense of humor and love for life. He had a heart of gold, and sometimes trusted much too much. My husband and I have missed the old Lowell ever since he got dementia so bad some years ago. Lowell will always be in my heart and in my prayers, as are Virginia and their son, Jimmy. R.I.P.

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