Warren Douglas Sutherland
July 27, 1948 – May 28, 2022
MEMORIAL SERVICE: Saturday, June 11th at 11am, West Center Chapel. Interment, Omaha National Cemetery. Memorials will be directed by the family.
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Warren Sutherland, age 73 years, was born in Washington, DC to Archie and Estelle (Hogan) Sutherland. He graduated from Bladensburg High School and the Community College of the Air Force and attended University of Maryland. Warren married Martha “Marty” Jane Moone in 1969 in Forestville, MD. He joined the United States Air Force in 1967. Warren was stationed in South Korea during the Pueblo Crisis in 1968 and served multiple assignments to Thailand during the Vietnam War. His 24-year Air Force career saw him and his family change duty locations eight times including a total of 12 years spent in England and Germany. Warren retired from the Air Force in 1990 as the First Sergeant of the 1st ACOMM Wing on Offutt Air Force Base in Bellevue, Nebraska. Within a week of his military retirement, he started work for Schneider National as an over-the-road truck driver and training engineer for 10 years and then Werner Enterprises for 5 years as a dispatcher.
Marty retired in 2011 from the National Park Service. They moved to the family home in Kilmarnock Virginia. However, this home was just a base of operations for them as they continued their love of traveling. From 2011 until his passing, they visited friends and family scattered throughout the United States including Hawaii, Alaska, and every winery in between. One of his favorite trips was taking the kids, their spouses and grandchildren back to Germany and England to visit places where Doug and Carol had grown up. Since his retirement, Warren closed every email and conversation with his favorite saying “Every day is Saturday”. He truly lived as if every day was Saturday.
During the time in Kilmarnock, Warren joined Marty’s childhood church, Kilmarnock Baptist Church, where he served as a Deacon, Chair of the Cemetery Committee and Chair of the Constitution Committee. Both Warren and Marty served the local community in various volunteer missions. He was so proud of both managing the Kilmarnock Baptist Church Food Pantry.
Family was the most important thing to Warren. He never missed an important moment in his children’s lives and was just a phone call away when a family member needed him, sometimes just to talk through a problem. He always had advice to help.
Warren is survived by his wife of 53 years, Marty Sutherland; his son, Doug Sutherland, daughter, Carol (Dan) Flynn; grandchildren Payton Flynn, Brittney (Brandon) Pecha, Danny Flynn, Michelle Sutherland, Nolan Ford, and Nick Flynn; great-grandchild, Benji Pecha; his brothers and sisters: Anita Sutherland-Millmann, Mel (Vicki) Sutherland, Mike (Daisye) Sutherland, Birgit (Andy) Leneweaver, and Sheila (Dodd) Parrish; and many nieces and nephews.
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Warren was a Brother-in-law in all the good ways possible and I truely appreciated the way he embraced me when I joined the family. I shall miss him! I hope the family can find comfort in the knowledge of a life well lived.
Rest in Peace, my friend.
19 yrs ago Marty and Warren entered my life and changed it forever. They became surrogate parents to me and as the obituary says ‘were always just a phone call away.’ One of the happiest moments of my life was when Warren walked me down the aisle. However, my favorite thing to do when with him was to cook for him. We had so many dinners and visits together where he would tell the best stories. Warren made the best Boston Butt smoked BBQ on the face of this planet and I have had alot of BBQ in my lifetime. He took such pride in the craft of BBQ and I am very grateful that in our last visit together he went out of his way to make me some.
I already miss Warren (or as I called him ‘Papa Bear’) more than words can describe. I know he is in heaven looking down on us all. I wish comfort and peace to his family and thank you for sharing Warren with so many of us.
19 yrs ago Marty and Warren entered my life and changed it forever. They became surrogate parents to me and as the obituary says ‘were always just a phone call away.’ One of the happiest moments of my life was when Warren walked me down the aisle. However, my favorite thing to do when with him was to cook for him.
and expose him to foods he previously didn’t ‘like.’ We had so many dinners and visits together where he would tell the best stories. Warren made the best Boston Butt smoked BBQ on the face of this planet and I have had alot of BBQ in my lifetime. He took such pride in the craft of BBQ and I am very grateful that in our last visit together he went out of his way to make me some.
I already miss Warren (or as I called him ‘Papa Bear’) more than words can describe. I know he is in heaven looking down on us all. I wish comfort and peace to his family and thank you for sharing Warren with so many of us.
I will truly miss Warren he was a friend in the true meaning of the word. I didn’t know him from the 1ACommGp where we both served but found out later that he was my 1st Sgt. He was a best friend to my true love Gene Goff and we accompanied him and Marty on many fun adventures with their extended families through the years. Gene and I came to think of all those family members as really good friends and adopted family even though now that Gene also passed I have not been as good at keeping in touch or visiting. He was still a treasured friend in my heart as well as all the family members who opened their hearts to us. May he rest in peace. I wish nothing but peace and good for the family. Thank you for the memories.
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