Nathan S. Sutton often talked about the first memory he had of his father. Samuel Satanovsky was coming home after World War I as a soldier for Great Britain, and Mr. Sutton, who was 3 when the war ended, used to say, “I remember taking his walking stick and parading down Whitechapel Road.” Mr. Sutton, 89, died Friday, Aug. 20, in Glenbrook Hospital. Mr. Sutton, who served in the U.S. Army during World War II, thought he was fortunate to have made it back home after serving as a private first class in the 1306th Engineer Company. In northern France, the Ardennes and the Rhineland, he constantly was under fire while helping build bridges. Samuel Satanovsky brought his family to Waco, Texas, in 1921. They moved to Chicago a few years later and Mr. Sutton attended Harrison High School. He joined the National Guard, did construction work in Alaska, then came back to Chicago and married Esther Tobman, who died in 1993. Mr. Sutton moved his family to Skokie in 1950. He worked as a jewelry salesman with Marx Bros. and Lebolt & Co. in the mid-1950s and remained in that business until retiring in the early 1980s. Mr. Sutton then spent 14 years volunteering for St. Francis Hospital in Evanston. “He loved cheering up patients,” said his son, Alan. Other survivors include two grandchildren. Services will be held 12:15 p.m. Monday in Memorial Park Cemetery, 9900 N. Gross Point Rd., Skokie.
