SENECA, S.C. – Gertrude Elizabeth "Trudie" Sutter, 94, widow of the late Phil Sutter, passed
away peacefully Thursday, February 17, 2011 at the Cottingham Hospice House.
Born in 1916 to the late Everett E. and Edith M. (Lyon) Carter at the family farmhouse in Wood County,
Trudie was the youngest of three daughters. She attended school until third grade in a one-room
schoolhouse, now the Zimmerman School museum near Bowling Green.
After graduating from BGHS at age 16, she went to Perrysburg where she met local artist Phil Sutter, whom
she married three years later, after working her way through cosmetology school and becoming employed as
a hairdresser.
For many years she maintained her own business, Trudie’s Beauty Studio in Perrysburg.
The parents of three daughters, Trudie and Phil spent most of their 52 years of marriage in Perrysburg
and later Bowling Green. Eleven years after her husband’s death in 1988, Trudie joined two of her
daughters by moving to South Carolina, where she lived in Seneca and spent her final days at the
Cottingham Hospice House.
Mrs. Sutter is survived by her daughters, Janice (Ray) Bushnell, Robin (Les) McMahan, and Sandie (Perry)
Woodworth; seven grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren, plus many nieces and nephews.
In addition to her parents, Everett and Edith, and her husband, Philip, she was preceded in death by her
sisters, Marguerite Carpenter and Marcella "Sally" Loomis.
A Memorial Service and celebration of Trudie’s life will be held in the summer of 2011 at Oak Grove
Cemetery in Bowling Green, Ohio.
A message of condolence may be sent to the family by visiting www.sandiferfuneralhome.com.
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