William Gordon Sutherland was the youngest of five children of Thomas Shelton Sutherland III and Mary Elizabeth Robertson. He is survived by his loving wife of 50 years, his son, stepdaughter and her husband, sister, sister-in-law, as well as many cousins, nieces, nephews and friends. His son, Stuart Russell Sutherland, predeceased him in 1990.
After high school and a short time as an electrician, Mr. Sutherland joined the U.S. Army on August 8, 1950, where he served as a medical aidman with the 187th Regimental Combat Team, 11th Airborne Division, stationed in the U.S. and Japan. Honorably discharged after three years, he attended the University of Texas at Austin, later taking a job with Metropolitan Life Insurance and then Production National. In 1966, he moved to Memphis, Tennessee as branch manager of Armored Motor Service, later acquired by Purolator, and returned to Houston in 1973 where he became their top salesman. In 1979, he started his own company, Federal Security Armored Car Service, retiring 21 years later in 2000 after miraculously surviving a gunshot wound to the head during a holdup at the young age of 71. A devoted husband and father, he continued to enjoy life until the LORD Jesus Christ called him away. "The LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD." Job 1:21
Funeral services were held Wednesday, February 16, 2005 in the Chapel of Houston National Cemetery.
From the Houston Chronicle on February 15, 2005
After high school and a short time as an electrician, Mr. Sutherland joined the U.S. Army on August 8, 1950, where he served as a medical aidman with the 187th Regimental Combat Team, 11th Airborne Division, stationed in the U.S. and Japan. Honorably discharged after three years, he attended the University of Texas at Austin, later taking a job with Metropolitan Life Insurance and then Production National. In 1966, he moved to Memphis, Tennessee as branch manager of Armored Motor Service, later acquired by Purolator, and returned to Houston in 1973 where he became their top salesman. In 1979, he started his own company, Federal Security Armored Car Service, retiring 21 years later in 2000 after miraculously surviving a gunshot wound to the head during a holdup at the young age of 71. A devoted husband and father, he continued to enjoy life until the LORD Jesus Christ called him away. "The LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD." Job 1:21
Funeral services were held Wednesday, February 16, 2005 in the Chapel of Houston National Cemetery.
From the Houston Chronicle on February 15, 2005
William Gordon Sutherland was the youngest of five children of Thomas Shelton Sutherland III and Mary Elizabeth Robertson. He is survived by his loving wife of 50 years, his son, stepdaughter and her husband, sister, sister-in-law, as well as many cousins, nieces, nephews and friends. His son, Stuart Russell Sutherland, predeceased him in 1990.
After high school and a short time as an electrician, Mr. Sutherland joined the U.S. Army on August 8, 1950, where he served as a medical aidman with the 187th Regimental Combat Team, 11th Airborne Division, stationed in the U.S. and Japan. Honorably discharged after three years, he attended the University of Texas at Austin, later taking a job with Metropolitan Life Insurance and then Production National. In 1966, he moved to Memphis, Tennessee as branch manager of Armored Motor Service, later acquired by Purolator, and returned to Houston in 1973 where he became their top salesman. In 1979, he started his own company, Federal Security Armored Car Service, retiring 21 years later in 2000 after miraculously surviving a gunshot wound to the head during a holdup at the young age of 71. A devoted husband and father, he continued to enjoy life until the LORD Jesus Christ called him away. "The LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD." Job 1:21
Funeral services were held Wednesday, February 16, 2005 in the Chapel of Houston National Cemetery.
From the Houston Chronicle on February 15, 2005
After high school and a short time as an electrician, Mr. Sutherland joined the U.S. Army on August 8, 1950, where he served as a medical aidman with the 187th Regimental Combat Team, 11th Airborne Division, stationed in the U.S. and Japan. Honorably discharged after three years, he attended the University of Texas at Austin, later taking a job with Metropolitan Life Insurance and then Production National. In 1966, he moved to Memphis, Tennessee as branch manager of Armored Motor Service, later acquired by Purolator, and returned to Houston in 1973 where he became their top salesman. In 1979, he started his own company, Federal Security Armored Car Service, retiring 21 years later in 2000 after miraculously surviving a gunshot wound to the head during a holdup at the young age of 71. A devoted husband and father, he continued to enjoy life until the LORD Jesus Christ called him away. "The LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD." Job 1:21
Funeral services were held Wednesday, February 16, 2005 in the Chapel of Houston National Cemetery.
From the Houston Chronicle on February 15, 2005
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