Updated: 6:54 PM CDT April 18, 2021
FRISCO, Texas As Burnie Sutter approached his 100th birthday earlier this month, his daughter admitted that she often felt she was one of the few holding onto the memories that, for Burnie, were beginning to fade. Frisco, by the hundreds, turned out on a sunny Saturday morning to pleasantly prove her wrong. What s it like being 100 years old? Sandi Sutter Richards asked her father on a recent visit to her home in Frisco. You said I m an old., she said prompting him. Old fart, he said as they both laughed.
But Burnett Burnie Sutter, a WWII veteran his fellow soldiers dubbed Smiley, is so much more than that.
Family, community celebrates WWII veteran s 100th birthday with 100-vehicle parade in Frisco
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Family, community celebrates WWII veteran s 100th birthday with 100-vehicle parade in Frisco
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Updated: 7:51 PM CDT April 10, 2021
FRISCO, Texas A remarkable life was honored in today in Frisco.
Burnett “Burnie” Sutter, born on April 7, 1921, was celebrated outside Saddlebrook memory care with a 100-vehicle parade in honor of his 100th birthday.
Sutter, a WWII veteran, helped liberate the Flossenburg Concentration Camp.
Credit: Sutter Family
He’s now the proud grandfather of three and the great-grandfather of eight.
His family said his memories are now fading, but his daughter said days like this keep his memory and sacrifices to his country alive.
“I am just extremely proud of him. We need to pass that along to our children, what these people were able to do to save our freedoms that we have today,” said his daughter Sandi Sutter.