Sioux City Journal; Sioux City IA; 1997-3-19

Leone M. (Lake) Dutton, 96, of Spokane, Wash., formerly of South Sioux City,
died Tuesday, March 4, 1997, in Spokane.

Memorial services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at the Marble Chapel in
Graceland Park Cemetery in Sioux City. Private burial services will follow.

Mrs. Dutton was born Sept. 18, 1907, in Homer, Neb., the daughter of Vernon
and Lucretia Lake. She graduated from South Sioux City High School,
Morningside College and the University of Minnesota.

She was a head teacher at the University of Chicago Nursery School and was
very active in the church in Chicago, Ill., later in Atlanta, Ga. and
Tuscaloosa, Ala.

She married W. Eugene Dutton. The couple lived in Rhode Island for 33 years,
where he was on the faculty of Rhode Island College and helped found the
Urban Education Center. He died in 1979. She moved to Spokane six months
ago.

Survivors include two sons and their wives, David Dutton and Beverly Biggs
of Spokane and Peter and Hiroko Dutton of Fresh Meadows, N.Y.; a
grandaughter, Rebecca Dutton; and a brother and his wife, Vernon and June
Lake of Minneapolis, Minn.

Memorials may be sent to the Leone and Eugene Dutton Memorial Scholarship
Fund at the Rhode Island College Foundation in Providence, R.I.