October 17, 2024, 93, Mount Olive —

Annie Lois Thigpen Sutton, resident of the Scott’s Store community near Mount Olive, passed away early Thursday morning, October 17, 2024, at Willow Creek Nursing Center in Goldsboro where, for the last several months, she had received care.  She was 93 years old.

Known locally as “Dinah,” she, along with her husband, were poultry farmers.  A life-long member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, she worshipped at the Albertson Ward where, in years past, she had been a Sunday School secretary, a visiting home teacher, and was involved with the Women’s Relief Society of the Church.  She was a member of the 1949 graduating class of the B. F. Grady High School.  Also, during the couple’s stay in Goldsboro, she had been a teacher’s assistant with the Goldsboro City Schools.

Mrs. Sutton is survived by two sons and daughters-in-law, Thomas Harold “Tommy” Sutton and Ketia Hood Sutton of Goldsboro, and Donald Becton Sutton and Jill Bowden Sutton of the Scott’s Store community, Mount Olive; grandchildren, Thomas Harold Sutton, Jr., Jennie Marie Sutton Moore, and Regina Dawn Sutton Grantham; several great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Ivey Harold Sutton; a daughter, Regina Lois Sutton; a grandson, Daniel Becton Sutton; her parents, Roland and Viola Carter Thigpen; a sister, Marie Thigpen Malpass; and a brother, Carl Elmore “Jack” Thigpen.

Funeral arrangements are pending.