Hector Horatio Sutherland, 93, a native of British Columbia and a resident of Fairhope, died Thursday, Sept. 10, 2009 in Fairhope.
He was a U.S Army veteran of World War II. He attended Marrietta Johnson School, Edgewood School, Greenwich, Conn., and graduated Dartmouth College, and New York University. He retired as Professor Emeritus. He was a Professor and Director of Printing, School of Printing at West Virginia Institute of Technology, Rochester, N.Y.
Survivors include his wife, Martha Sutherland of Fairhope; a son, James Edward Sutherland of Rochester, N.Y.; daughter, Janet M. Ellsworth of Simsbury, Conn.; two granddaughters, Maura Sutherland of Rochester, N.Y., and Susan Ellsworth of Simsbury, Conn.
A private interment will be held at a later date.
The family requests memorial donations be made to Mercy Medical Hospice.
Arrangements are by Wolfe-Bayview Funeral Homes & Crematory Inc., Fairhope.
