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.