John A. Hutto, USN, Retired, age 80, of Gautier, MS., died Thursday, September 23, 2010 in Gautier.
Mr. Hutto was a Commander in the Navy with twenty-nine years of service. He worked for McDonnell-Douglas Aircraft in St. Louis following his retirement. He was a member of the VFW and American Legion Post 1992 in Gautier and a member of AV Chapter: Milton P. Hunter, #17.
He is preceded in death by his parents Marvin and Esther Hutto.
Survivors include his wife of fifty-five years, Helen Hutto; daughter, Linda Jane Sanford of Round Rock, TX; two sons, John Garland Hutto and his wife, Christine A. Hutto of Vancleave and Thomas Michael Hutto of Biloxi; two sisters, Marvie Jean Dufek of Pascagoula and Carolyn Ruth Walz of Loxley, AL; and three grandchildren, J.T. Sanford, Joshua Lightner and Victoria Alexander.
Funeral Services will be Tuesday, September 28, 2010 at 11:30 a.m. where friends may visit an hour and a half prior at the Ocean Springs Chapel of Bradford O'Keefe Funeral Home. Interment will follow with full military honors in Biloxi National Cemetery.