Thu May 20, 2021 - Northeast Edition #11
CEG
Dudley Sutton, 80, of Clay, N.Y., died peacefully at his home on April 25, 2021.
Mr. Sutton worked almost his entire career in the construction equipment industry. He started in the 1970s with The Dow Company, an International Harvester and Lorain Crane distributor in western New York State. From there, he and his wife, Leola, moved for a short time to Davenport, Iowa, to run the Case Power factory store. After a brief time they moved to Long Island, N.Y., where the Case distributor, T.J. Burke, had gone out of business and Case was opening up a factory store to replace the distributorship; Mr. Sutton was moved there to manage that dealership. From there the Suttons moved back to the Syracuse, N.Y., area to work for Monroe Tractor. In 1992 he left Monroe Tractor to join L.B. Smith, which eventually became Vantage Equipment and just recently purchased by Alta Equipment, the Volvo dealership that he ended his career with.