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A few final thoughts on the Suttons saying goodbye to their mother
Published: 1/12/2013 6:45 PM
Last Modified: 1/12/2013 6:45 PM

In about one hour, Scott Sutton and Sean Sutton will coach Oral Roberts University in a basketball game for the first time since attending their mother’s funeral on Friday.

Five quick stories from Patsy Sutton’s memorial service:

1, OSU president Burns Hargis came to a media area where interview subjects were asked about Patsy Sutton. Said Hargis, “I don’t know many people that are as beloved as Patsy Sutton.

Hargis also said his mother used to tell him you could judge people by their eyes. Then he added this about Patsy: “She had the kindest eyes I think I have ever seen.”

2, During the service, it was mentioned that Patsy Sutton liked to play Words With Friends and was so good at it that oldest son Steve Sutton purchased a cheater app and still couldn’t beat her.

3, It was mentioned that Patsy’s license plate reads “Honey 29.” Her grandchildren -- and she has nine of them call her “Honey.” Translated, that means her license plate says she is Honey “2” nine.

4, One day before OU and OSU met in a Bedlam basketball game, Sooner athletic director Joe Castiglione represented his university at the service. “What a matriarch she was for a wonderful family,” Castiglione said.

5, Former Arkansas player Jim Counce represented Eddie Sutton’s former players by speaking at the service. He said Patsy Sutton had three sons and “thousands” of other sons who happened to be Eddie’s players.

Counce said boys who were 18, 19 and 20 years old definitely needed a mother figure away from home. “She was our mom. We loved her and she loved us.”

Counce said Patsy was the advocate, protector and defender of Eddie’s players “and we definitely needed it. She was the buffer between us and coach.”

Counce also credited the Suttons for showing players what a marriage was supposed to be like. They saw that Eddie could be stern with players and gentle with his wife.



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Tulsa World sports writer Jimmie Tramel is a former class president at Locust Grove High School. He graduated magna cum laude from Northeastern State University with a journalism degree and, while attending college, was sports editor of the Pryor Daily Times. He joined the Tulsa World on Oct. 17, 1989, the same day an earthquake struck the World Series. Since 2001, he has been honored more than 30 times in Associated Press and Society of Professional Journalists contests for sports reporting, sports columns and sports features. He is the Oklahoma State football beat writer and the Oral Roberts basketball beat writer. In 2007, he wrote a book about OSU football with former Cowboy coach Pat Jones.

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