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Published in the Knoxville, TN - News-Sentinel 2005-6-11
CLEMMER, JOSEPH DEWEY - age 64, of Tellico Plains, passed away 9:15 P.M. Thursday, June 9, 2005 at East Tennessee Health Care. Survivors: wife, Annie Vernell Clemmer; daughters, Glessia Woodruff, Jodie Glandon, both of Maryville; sons, Danny Clemmer, Decatur, Chris Clemmer, Tellico Plains; 2 granddaughters; 3 grandsons; mother, Lillian Marie Sitzlar; Sister, Jane Cook; brother, David Glee Clemmer, all of Tellico Plains; 5 step-children; 16 step grandchildren; Several nieces & nephews. Preceded in death by father, Ira Glee Clemmer. Funeral 2 P.M. Sunday, Mt. Calvary Baptist Church, Rev. Roy Baker & Rev. Jim Millsaps officiating.
Interment Sitzlar Family Cemetery. Family will receive friends 6-8 P.M. Saturday at Biereley-Hale Funeral Home, Tellico Plains.
No, it is not me.
Danny Clemmer
clemmer.org
The following obituary has yet to be published but will soon appear in several papers.
Milo Wilton Sutton
December 28, 1928 June 7, 2005
Hermosa Beach, CA
Milo Wilton Sutton was born in Hartford, Kansas on December 24, 1928 to Joseph Bernard and Genevieve Lorraine (Campbell) Sutton. He died at his home in Hermosa Beach, California on June 7, 2005 from complications of multiple myeloma cancer. His wife and some of his children were at his side. He was 76 years old.
Milo grew up in Emporia, Kansas. He graduated from Emporia High School in 1946. He joined the Navy in 1946 and was assigned to the Submarine Service. He married Doreen (Dee Dee) Clemmer on December 18, 1948 in Kansas City, Kansas. He ran for and won election to the Kansas State House of Representatives in 1950 at the age of 21, and was re-elected when he was 23. For four years, he was the youngest elected official in the United States. At 25, Milo was selected as the state campaign manager for the late Governor George Docking who was Kansas' only three-term governor. He and Dee Dee bought the Salina (KS) Advertiser-Sun in 1954 and sold the newspaper in 1959. During that period, Milo was elected as a board member of the Kansas Press Association.
For almost 50 years, Milo held numerous editorial and marketing management positions in the newspaper industry in Kansas, Texas, and California. He traveled worldwide, frequently speaking at international newspaper conventions. He was president of a worldwide newspaper association (INMA) in 1989-90. In 1986, he was the winner of the INPA/INMA's two highest awards the Silver Strand and the Silver Shovel. He retired as the marketing manager of the Los Angeles Times. He previously held senior executive positions with the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, Los Angeles Mirror-News, Dallas Times Herald, and the South Bay Daily Breeze (Copley Los Angeles Newspaper). Of note, his last job as a reporter was covering the 1960 Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles when John F. Kennedy was nominated for president. There he escorted Eleanor Roosevelt to her seat.
Milo served ten years on the William Allen White Foundation (WAW) for the University of Kansas board of trustees (they made him an honorary board of trustee when his cancer made him unable to travel); he was a member of the International Newspaper Promotions Association/International Newspaper Marketing Association (INPA/INMA); he was on the advisory board of the YMCA Camp Wood; and, he was a member of the Emporia American Legion.
Both his father and mother, and an older brother, Francis Eugene Sutton, precede Milo in death. He is survived by his wife, Dee Dee, and six children: Cynthia Van Esselstyn of West Palm Beach, FL; Janet Owen of San Pedro, CA; Rita Mackey of Allen, TX; Debbie Toledo of Huntington Beach, CA; Wendy Milton of Long Beach, CA; Michael Sutton of Redondo Beach, CA; and nine grandchildren; and five great grandchildren.
Milo will be cremated. A memorial service will be held at First Lutheran Church located at 1100 Poinsettia, Manhattan Beach, CA at 2:00 P.M. on Sunday, June 19, 2005. In lieu of flowers, family members are requesting donations be sent to the YMCA Camp Wood, RR 1, Elmdale, Kansas 66850, in memory of Milo W. Sutton.
Danny Clemmer
clemmer.org
Published in the Manchester, MA Union Leader 2004-12-21
Virginia M. Champlin
WOLFEBORO -- Virginia M. (Sutton) Champlin, 84, of Birch Hill Estates,
died Dec. 19, 2004, at Huggins Hospital.
Born Aug. 21, 1920, in Brighton, Mass., she was the daughter of Francis
and Mary (Naughton) Sutton. She had lived in the Boston and Woburn, Mass.,
area for several years before moving to Randolph, Vt., where she and her
husband lived until moving to Wolfeboro in the 1980s.
She had been a member of the Huggins Hospital Guild, helping with the
Huggins Hospital Street Fair for many years. She was also a member of the
Wolfeboro Newcomers Club.
The family includes her husband of 66 years, Raymond L. Champlin of
Wolfeboro; a son, Robert Champlin of Dennis, Mass.; four daughters, Patricia
McComiskey of Burlington, Mass., Sandra MacPherson of Wolfeboro, Phyllis
Tapley of Blyville, Ark., and Elaine Rogers of Supolpa, Okla.; 20
grandchildren; 23 great-grandchildren; a sister, Judith Walsh of Tewksbury,
Mass.; and many nieces and nephews.
SERVICES: Calling hours are Wednesday from 9:30 to 11 a.m. at Lord
Funeral Home, Route 28, Wolfeboro.
A Mass of Christian burial will be celebrated Wednesday at 11:15 a.m. at
St. Katherine Drexel Catholic Church, South Main Street, Wolfeboro.
Burial will be in New Hampshire Veterans Cemetery, Boscawen, at a later
date.
Memorial donations may be made to Huggins Hospital, Wolfeboro.
Danny Clemmer
clemmer.org