She was born March 21, 1935, in Avonmore, Pennsylvania, and was the eldest daughter of Grace Caroline (McBryar) Smeltzer and Alton P. King.
Retired for several years, Mrs. Sutton gained experience in banking and finance through her previous employment with Pittsburgh National Bank, Saltsburg Bank and Trust, Avonmore Bank, and Security Trust of Washington, D.C. This prior knowledge blossomed when she and her husband became adult entrepreneurs. As Shaklee independent business owners they shared good health concepts and provided many the opportunity to explore entrepreneurial possibilities. Mrs. Sutton brought laughter and joy as a gifted and imaginative story-teller of tales she told to all who listened with anticipation. She dispersed tidbits of wisdom to her friends and just as importantly to the neighborhood children she entertained as if they all belonged to her. Many of the youth in Lower Burrell viewed Mrs. Sutton as their second mom cooking breakfast, lunch, and dinner for those around at mealtimes. She would do a head count to see who would stay, never turning down an opportunity to share her homemade fudge, cookies, and candy. Her car became a taxi service. She accepted all as her own even when she would interrupt a business meeting to allow one of the neighborhood children permission to use the backyard pool.
As a member of the Grace Community Presbyterian Church in Lower Burrell, she actively participated in their choir for many years. She received an Associate Degree from the Westmoreland Community College and was a graduate of Saltsburg High School.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband of 45 years, William Richard Sutton, Sr., her brother, Eugene King; two sisters, Brenda King Fennell of Salina and Lucille King Cadamore of Sarver, and her beloved miniature schnauzers, Prince and Xanadu.
Mrs. Sutton is survived by her three sons, William (Jane) Sutton, Jr., of Brandon, Mississippi, James (Donna) Sutton of Charlotte, North Carolina, and Robert (Teresa) Sutton of Coral Springs, Florida; eight grandchildren, twelve great-grandchildren, and several nieces and nephews. Also surviving is her sister, Twyla Marckioni of Greensburg, Pennsylvania.
Friends in Florida will be received between 9:00 am and 12:00 pm, November 6, 2020 at Kraeer Funeral Home, 1655 University Drive, Coral Springs. Friends in Pennsylvania will be received in the Lower Burrell area the first week of December.
The best and greatest story Bertha told others was that her salvation secured by Christ alone happened in her early teenage years. Her and Dad’s salvation provides us comfort and peace that exceeds understanding now that they are both healed completely, alive more than ever, and wait for us with smiling eyes and outstretched arms showered in the light and glory of our Savior.
In lieu of flowers, the family appreciates contributions to your local state Alzheimer’s Association Chapter in memory of Bertha Sutton.
“But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us. We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies. For we who live are always being given over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh. So death is at work in us, but life in you.
Since we have the same spirit of faith according to what has been written, “I believed, and so I spoke,” we also believe, and so we also speak, knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus and bring us with you into his presence. For it is all for your sake, so that as grace extends to more and more people it may increase thanksgiving, to the glory of God.
So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.” (2 Corinthians 4:7-18)
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