Mary was a lifelong resident of Rhea County and of the Baptist Faith. She loved to sew and drove the Sequatchie Headstart Bus, she was a homemaker. Mary is preceded in death by her parents, Robert and Nettie Sholtz Sutton; her husband, Bill Shelton; two sons, Kenneth and Marshall Sutton; a daughter-in-law; Carla Shelton; two brothers, Robert Howard and Roy Sligh Sutton; one sister, Phyllis Sutton; one great-grandchild, Anaih Houston. Surviving her are five children, Belinda Juanita (Don) Houston , Seldon Keith ( Rhonda) Shelton , Christopher Lee (Sherry) Shelton all of Evensville; Elvert Hunter (Sherry) Shelton of Dayton; Shiela Fulghum (Kelly) of Graysville; ten sisters, Jessie Wilson and Bessie Patton, Lena Bearden, Patricia Harmon, Sue Lawson, all of Dayton, Mildred Hicks of Georgia, Irene Sutton of Grandview, Dorothy Pelfrey and Becky Redden, both of Spring City, and Ruth McRee of Soddy Daisy; one brother, William Henry Sutton of Sale Creek; twelve grandchildren, twenty six- great-grandchildren, four great-great-grandchildren, several nieces and nephews..
Mary was a lifelong resident of Rhea County and of the Baptist Faith. She loved to sew and drove the Sequatchie Headstart Bus, she was a homemaker. Mary is preceded in death by her parents, Robert and Nettie Sholtz Sutton; her husband, Bill Shelton; two sons, Kenneth and Marshall Sutton; a daughter-in-law; Carla Shelton; two brothers, Robert Howard and Roy Sligh Sutton; one sister, Phyllis Sutton; one great-grandchild, Anaih Houston. Surviving her are five children, Belinda Juanita (Don) Houston , Seldon Keith ( Rhonda) Shelton , Christopher Lee (Sherry) Shelton all of Evensville; Elvert Hunter (Sherry) Shelton of Dayton; Shiela Fulghum (Kelly) of Graysville; ten sisters, Jessie Wilson and Bessie Patton, Lena Bearden, Patricia Harmon, Sue Lawson, all of Dayton, Mildred Hicks of Georgia, Irene Sutton of Grandview, Dorothy Pelfrey and Becky Redden, both of Spring City, and Ruth McRee of Soddy Daisy; one brother, William Henry Sutton of Sale Creek; twelve grandchildren, twenty six- great-grandchildren, four great-great-grandchildren, several nieces and nephews..
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