Gene died, actually, of a complication from an aggressive infection.
It was a shock.
Her passing caught many in the sports community by surprise, even though they knew their friend was in a tough battle.
“It’s just surreal,” said close friend Therese Quigley, the former McMaster University Athletics director.
“She’s just one of those people you expected to always be around.”
Sutton recently helped with the Canadian gymnastic championships at McMaster. She’d been involved in an Olympic symposium in Greece and was co-chair of Hamilton’s Olympic torch celebration. …
“She will be missed big-time. There aren’t many people with her passion and the drive to give at all levels of sport, from grassroots to the elite level.”
Quigley said “she did the work of 120 years in her 64 years.”
Sutton’s influence spanned local to international sports as a gymnastics judge, administrator and visionary.
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She sat on the executive and board of the Canadian Olympic Committee, was an international authority on gymnastics, served on a multitude of committees and was Canada’s chef de mission at the 2003 Pan American Games.
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Friends and family are organizing a party to celebrate Gene’s life.
Thanks Amy.
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