J.T. Tutor

Funeral services for J.T. Tutor, 75, of Temple will be held at 10:00 A.M. Tuesday July 22, 2008 at Scanio Harper Funeral Home with Frank Tutor officiating. Burial will be at a later date at Central Texas State Veterans Cemetery. Mr. Tutor died Friday July 18, 2008 in a Temple Hospital. Mr. Tutor was born in Levita, Texas to Thomas Jefferson Tutor and Alice Ophelia Lee Tutor. He moved to Temple in 1944. He served in the Air Force during The Korean Conflict and the Vietnam War. He retired in 1972 as a Master Sergeant. He was an Assistant Administrator at Tutor Nursing Home and owner of Tutor Farm. He was a 32nd degree Mason and a member of the Shriner Sunset Chapter in San Antonio. He was former commander of American Legion Post 133. He attended First Christian Church in Belton. Survivors include his companion Mary Tutor of Troy; three sons James Tutor of San Antonio, Frank Allan Tutor of Cleveland and Dennis Dale Tutor of San Antonio; five stepsons Mark Cohen and Seth Cohen of Pflugerville, Everett Kuhen of Mansfield and Gary Kuhen and Robert Tutor both of Temple; two brothers Ray Van Tutor of Temple and Chester Dean Tutor of Georgetown; one sister Annie Ellis of Temple; eleven grandchildren, nine step grandchildren and eleven great grandchildren. Memorials may be made to American Heart Association. Visitation will be from 6:00 P.M. to 8:00 P.M. Monday at Scanio Harper Funeral Home.