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Nancy Ruth Sutton was born April 4, 1937 to Arapaho Chief Harry Arthur Sutton and Sallie Blackbear Sutton at Geary, Oklahoma. She departed this life on December 17, 2021 at Watonga Mercy Hospital.
Nancy attended school at Eagle City. She enjoyed playing handgame and was a member of the Arapaho Nation Handgame Team. She also enjoyed going to pow-wows, traveling to Wyoming for the Arapaho ceremonial Sundance, and also going to the Crow Agency in Montana to play in the Senior Handgame tournament. She was also a member of the Oklahoma Senior Handgame Team. She was chosen to be the Handgame Queen for the State Handgame Tournament of May, 2017. Nancy enjoyed spending time with her great-grandson Asher Snow.
Preceded her in death were her parents; her siblings Arthur Warren Sutton, Arapaho Chief William Ray Sutton, Viola Sutton Hatch, Cora Mae Sutton Scabby Horse-Querdibitty, Patricia Sutton Walker, Charlene Sutton Lime, Georgia Sutton Roberts and Kenneth Paulsen.
Surviving family include daughter Pamela Kay Sutton, grand-daughter Kaylynn Snow Carnes; grandsons Aaron Snow and Jarrett Snow; great-grandson Asher Snow; her sons Steven Benson and Jack Allen, Jr.; special grandson Halo Mateo; her siblings Arapaho Chief Allen Sutton, Sr., Wilda Sutton Gould, Ava Sutton Benson, Marcella Sutton Armijo; sister-in-law June Paulsen; niece Sandy Murray Cavett; special grand-daughter Mary Ella WhiteHorse Wermy; the Sankey families, the Fanman families, and the Allrunner families; plus many more relatives and friends.
Wake services will be held from 7-8:00 p.m., Wednesday, December 22, 2021 at
the Canton School Multi-purpose Building. Funeral services will be held at 1:00
p.m., Thursday, December 23, 2021 at the same venue with Rev. Gerald Panana and
Elvin Kenrick officiating. Interment will follow at the Canton Indian Mennonite
Cemetery under the direction of Pierce Funeral Home, Canton. Condolence messages
may be written at
www.piercefuneralhomes.com.
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