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Leslie Sutherland
In Memory of
Leslie T.
Sutherland Jr.
1928 - 2007
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Obituary for Leslie T. Sutherland Jr.

LESLIE T. SUTHERLAND, JR., 78, of 100 Anita Drive, Pittsfield, died Friday
morning at his home.Born in Yonkers, New York, March 20, 1928, a son of Leslie T. and Viola Knapp Sutherland. He was a 1945 graduate of Charles Gorton High School in Yonkers, New
York, and attended Cornell University.
Mr. Sutherland began his lifelong career in the lumber industry at Marcellus Lumber Company in Oneida, New York, where he worked in accounting .
In l959, he went to work for Dettinger Lumber in Pittsfield. In 1969 he became a
part owner, and eventually purchased the business. In 1991, he sold the business to two
of his children. He continued to work part time until the time of his death.
Mr. Sutherland was a communicant of St. Teresa Church where he was eucharistic minister and a member of the Men's Group.
He had served as president of the Northeast Retail Lumber Association and
president of the Massachusetts Retail Lumber Association, and was chairman of ENAP Inc., a cooperative buying group.
He was president of the Kiwanis and Jaycees
clubs, and St. Joseph High School Booster Club. He was also a member of the Awenke
Yacht Club in New Baltimore, New York, where he kept his boat, the Pipe Dream.
Mr. Sutherland leaves his wife, the former Charlotte Jeanne Eberwein, whom he
married on July 2, 1960.
Besides his wife, Mr. Sutherland is survived by a son, David C. Sutherland of
Pittsfield, three daughters, Nancy J. Lotz of Sugarloaf, Pennsylvania; Ellen S. Morris of
North Adams; and Joanne Sutherland Spence of Pittsfield; two half-sisters, Doris
Van DeKoppel of Salem,Oregon, and Suzi Sutherland-Martin of Clackamas, Oregon;
and ten grandchildren.

FUNERAL NOTICE: A Liturgy of Christian Burial for LESLIE THOMPSON SUTHERLAND, JR.,
who died Friday, March 2, will be Tuesday, March 6, at 11:00 a.m., at St. Teresa
Church, celebrated by Rev. Mark Mengel, S.S.C., Pastor. Burial will follow in St.
Joseph's Cemetery. Calling hours will be Monday, from 3:00 to 7:00 p.m., at DERY
FUNERAL HOME. In lieu of flowers, contributions in memory of Mr. Sutherland may
be made to St. Teresa Church or the Berkshire Visiting Nurse Association, both in care
of the Funeral Home, 54 Bradford Street, Pittsfield.
Mr. Sutherland also leaves his sons-in-law, Jeffrey Lotz and Eric Spence; his
daughter-in-law, Anne Sutherland, and his ten grandchildren, Charlotte Lotz and Jeffrey
Lotz, Alex Sutherland, Christian Sutherland, and Jonathan Sutherland, and Tonia
Nicholas, David Nicholas, and Jared Nicholas, and Max Spence and Charlie Spence.
He will always be remembered by his family, many loyal customers, and business and civic
associates as a gentle man with a quiet voice and a big heart.

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