Former IMB missionary Tom Sutton dies at 92

Horace Thomas “Tom” Sutton, who served as an International Mission Board missionary in Latin America for 25 years, died Jan. 13. He was 92.

A Mobile native, Sutton served in the U.S. Army and graduated from Mobile College (now the University of Mobile). While there, he received the H. Austin Pharr Award for Most Outstanding Student.

Sutton and his wife, Peggy Jo Barlow, were appointed as IMB missionaries in 1969 and served 25 years in Costa Rica, Guatemala, Colombia, Bolivia and Venezuela. Sutton was also a member of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local No. 505 in Mobile for more than 70 years.

Sutton was preceded in death by his wife of 47 years, who died in 2003. He is survived by his daughters, Kaye, Kristy and Laurie; four grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.