Goldie Inez MATTHEWS

  General Notes:

1889 BIRTH of Goldie Inez Matthews

1900 CENSUS, Iowa, Wapello County, Columbia Township, Eddyville ("Goldie Mathews," age 11, born "May, 1887 in Iowa," is with her parents)

1905 CENSUS, Iowa State Census, Wapello County, Ottumwa ("Golda I. Mathews," with parents) (names only are in the 1905 Iowa State Census)

1910 CENSUS, Iowa, Wapello County, Center Township, Ottumwa ("Goldie I. Mathews," age 20, "Milliner, dept. store," with mother Emma)

1911 MARRIAGE (approximate) of Goldie Inez Matthews and Harry Edgar Sutton

1918 REGISTRATION, World War I Draft, Iowa, Wapello County, Ottumwa ("Harry Edgar Sutton," age 32, born September 16, 1885, "Salesman, Hutchinson & Co.")

1919 DEATH of grandmother, Elizabeth (Baker) Matthews

1920 CENSUS, Iowa, Wapello County, Ottumwa ("Harry E." Sutton, age 34, "Salesman, Wholesale Grocery") (wife "Goldie," age 30)

1924 DEATH of father, Clifford Cullen Matthews (in January)

1924 DEATH of mother, Emma (Kendall) Matthews (in August)

1925 CENSUS, Iowa State Census, Wapello County, Center Township, Ottumwa ("Harry E. Sutton," age 39) (wife "Goldie," age 35) (children "Jack B." and "Marjorie" are also documented)

1930 CENSUS, Iowa, Wapello County, Center Township, Ottumwa ("Harry E.," age 44, "Salesman, Real Estate") (wife "Goldie," age 40) ("Sutter" in some census indexes)

1954 DEATH of husband, Harry Edgar Sutton, at 68 years 8 months 9 days

1970 DEATH, Goldie Inez (Matthews) Sutton, at 80 years 11 months 12 days

Cause of death: "Arteriosclerotic heart disease" --death certificate




OBITUARY (Goldie) from Ottumwa Courier, Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa, April 20, 1970:

MRS. HARRY SUTTON

Mrs. Goldie Sutton of San Antonio, Texas, and formerly of Ottumwa, died at 2:50 a.m. Sunday in a San Antonio Hospital.

Born in Fairfield, the daughter of Cliff and Emma Kendall Matthews, she lived in Ottumwa prior to San Antonio 13 years ago.

Surviving are one son, Jack Sutton of San Antonio and one daughter, Miss Margery Sutton of San Antonio; three grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; and two brothers, Floyd Matthews of Fairfield, and Chris Matthews of Ottawa, Illinois.

She was preceded by her husband Harry E. Sutton in 1954.

The casket will be returned to Johnson Chapel late Tuesday. Graveside services will be Wednesday at 4:00 p.m. with the Rev. Brown Garlock of the Wesley United Methodist Church officiating.


Obituary, courtesy of Mary Lanigan




DOCUMENT: State of Texas death certificate No. 24010 for "Goldie Inez Sutton," informant, daughter Marjorie M. Sutton

Goldie married Harry Edgar SUTTON, son of Edgar Bromwell SUTTON and Mary E. ROSS, about 1911 in Iowa (Perhaps Wapello County). (Harry Edgar SUTTON was born on September 16, 1885 in Iowa, died on May 25, 1954 in Wapello County, Iowa and was buried in Ottumwa Cemetery, Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa.)