John Tyler Tuttle

1919 - 2017

JUNO BEACH, FLA. >> John Tyler Tuttle, former editor and publisher of the Oneida Daily Dispatch, died on March 9 in Juno Beach, Fla., a few days after his 98th birthday. He was born in 1919 in Brooklyn, N.Y., the son of Winthrop S. Tuttle and Eleanor Tyler Tuttle. Raised in Mamaroneck and Oneida, he was a graduate of Blair Academy and Williams College. Enlisting with the British Army after graduation, he served as an officer with the King's Royal Rifle Corps and the Long Range Desert Group.

Following the war, he was an advertising salesman for House & Garden and American Home magazines in New York. In 1951, he returned to Oneida and took over the Dispatch after his father's retirement. He sold the newspaper to Ingersoll Publications in 1977. Upon retirement, he settled in North Chatham, Mass., where he was a member of the Monomoy Yacht Club and the Stage Harbor Yacht Club. He subsequently moved to North Palm Beach, Fla., and at the time of death was a resident of Juno Beach. He had been a keen sailor, pilot and motorcyclist.

Mr. Tuttle was a past president of the New York Associated Dailies, Oneida Library, Oneida Chamber of Commerce, and a past director of the Oneida Community Chest, Oneida City Hospital, Oneida Rotary Club and the New York State Publishers Association. He was a member of the Tequesta Country Club and the Sons of the Revolution of New York State.

Mr. Tuttle is survived by his wife of 69 years, the former Charlotte Davenport of Pittsfield, Mass.; son J. Tyler Tuttle (and spouse, Claire) of Paris, France; daughters Winslow Tuttle (and spouse, Tobias Van Buren) of Vero Beach, Fla., and Susan Tuttle of Oakland, Calif.; two grandchildren, three great-grandchildren, and several nieces and nephews.

He was interred in a private service in Tequesta, Fla.