Virginia R. Sutton

COCKEYSVILLE, MD - Virginia R. Sutton, 95, died on May 28, 2010 at Broadmead Retirement Community in Cockeysville, MD. She had lived in the Washington/Baltimore area for 49 years - 20 years in Columbia.
     Mrs. Sutton, a native of Ossining, NY, began her career in the College and School Department of the New York Times after graduating from Wilson College in Chambersburg, PA, with a degree in Political Science. She also worked in the Personnel Office of the American Friends Service Committee in Philadelphia. She retired from Olney Elementary School in Montgomery County in 1977.
     Her work outside the home centered on the concerns of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). This included aiding the Palestine refugees in the Gaza Strip in 1949, involvement in the Friends World Committee for Consultation which included participation in meetings in Waterford, Ireland; Sigtuna, Sweden and Kaimosi, Kenya. Mrs. Sutton served on the Personnel Committee of the FWCC, the Friends Committee on the National Legislation and Pendle Hill, a Quaker retreat and conference center in Wallingford, PA, on the Executive Board of which she served for nine years.
     For four years Mrs. Sutton acted as the presiding clerk of Baltimore Yearly Meeting, which includes Friends meetings in Virginia, Washington, parts of south-central Pennsylvania and Maryland, except for the Eastern Shore.
     She summered in Otisfield on Lake Thompson with her aunt, Mary North.
     Survivors include her husband, Marshall Ostrander Sutton of Broadmead and her two children, Elizabeth O. Sutton of Media, PA and Peter Marshall Sutton of Portland, OR.