Matie Viola (Gebhards) Sutter
1916-2006

Matie Viola (Gebhards) Sutter, daughter of John and Ada (Hinricks) Gebhards, was born on September 14, 1916 in Langdon, Missouri. She passed away on Monday, December 11, 2006 at Pleasant View Nursing Home, Rock Port, at the age of 90 years. Matie attended Langdon public schools until the eighth grade.

Matie was united in marriage to Evan Leonard Sutter on November 14, 1935. They made their home in Rock Port where Matie enjoyed being a homemaker and mother. Matie took pleasure in tending her flower bed and going to household and yard sales. She also loved to collect glassware.

Matie was a member of the Lone Cedar Club and First Lutheran Church, Rock Port.

Survivors include their two sons, Ronnie Sutter and wife Phyllis, Rock Port, Herbert Darrell Sutter and wife Anita, Fairfax; six grandchildren, Jerry Sutter, Debbie True, Kevin Sutter and wife Shelli, Dayne Sutter, Jennifer LaHue and husband Troy, Tim Sutter and wife Leslie; thirteen great grandchildren; two great great grandchildren; one sister Frieda Derrossett; and one sister-in-law Betty Jane Gebhards.

Besides her parents and husband, Matie was preceded in death by her five sisters, Reka, Margaret, Anna, Lula and Rosa and three brothers, Ben, Bill and Herb.

Services were held Thursday, December 14, 2006 at 10:00 a.m., First Lutheran Church, Rock Port; burial immediately followed at Hunter Cemetery, Rock Port. There was no scheduled family visitation. In lieu of flowers, memorials may directed to the Rock Port Nutrition Center, Rock Port First Responders, First Lutheran Church or Hunter Cemetery, all of Rock Port.