Deaths-------------Pueblo
July 24
Suhay-John Suhay,93. Montgomery & Steward.
Pueblo Chieftain Vital Stats Wed July 27 2016
John Suhay, 93, went to another place on July 25, 2016, leaving his wife, Mary; son, Daryl; daughter, Kim; grandchildren, Audra, Jacob, Andrea, Jason, Danielle, Mathew, Justin, Lindsey, Heather and Sergio; great-grandchildren, Ezekiel, Elias and Aden; special sister-in-law, Rose Mueller; niece, Barbara (John) Kendall; many nieces and nephews in the Pittsburgh, Pa., area; and special friends, Kenneth and Judith Williams.
John graduated from Avella High School in West Virginia. While serving in the U.S. Navy, he was a member of the Navy band, where he took pride in playing the tuba. John was resident photographer at Sangre de Cristo Arts & Conference Center for many years. He will be deeply missed. Online condolences, www.MontgomerySteward.com.
Pueblo Chieftain Fri July 29 2016
Pueblo Chieftain Wed Aug 03 2016 Page 2B
OBITUARY
Suhay captured Pueblo’s good and bad
But the 93-year-old photographer loved the city
BY PETER ROPER Watch the video THE PUEBLO CHIEFTAIN
John Suhay started “making pictures” with a little Brownie camera when he was just 17 — before World War II, before he became a Pueblo steelworker, before he became one of the bestknown photographers in Southern Colorado.
Suhay died July 25 from cancer. He was 93 but leaves behind thousands of images — especially his beloved black-andwhite photographs — of a long love affair with Pueblo.
No public services are planned.
Suhay could see purpose in the silhouette of the CF& I mill; humor in the handbags and hairdos of Junior League matrons or gap-toothed Colorado State Fair vendors; and delight in nature’s oddities, such as tree branches that formed the alphabet.
Teens fighting in a city park was an image. So were grinning, relieved people climbing off a Fair roller coaster.
“I try to see instantly, right now,” Suhay told a Colorado Springs reporter in 1981. “You’re not seeing the whole world, you’re seeing little bits of it. I hope before I’m done, I can shut my mind out — no thought, just vision.”
Ken Williams, the local ceramics artist, said Suhay had “the eye” of a great photographer. The two men were hired to be artists-in-residence at the Sangre de Cristo Arts and Conference Center in the early 1970s.
“John had a workman’s attitude toward his art,” Williams said. “He liked to get up every day, pick up his camera and document this town. I know he made me a better artist.”Suhay’s son Daryl said his father liked to capture life in Pueblo from every angle — good or bad. And that effort has left behind 20,000 blackand- white negatives and thousands of color slides as well.
“He loved Pueblo,” his son said. “Sometimes I think he wanted to kick us in the butt, to get our attention.”
Suhay was born in Wellsburg, W.Va., in 1923. He joined the Navy during World War II and was part of a Seabee construction battalion stationed in Dutch Harbor, in the Aleutian Islands.
He came to Pueblo in 1955 to work in the mill and did so until he was able to be a full-time photographer, both as a free-lancer and working for advertising agencies. And taking his own photos all the time.
“I can often tell a Suhay photo on sight,” said Williams. “John always had an eye for something quirky or unexpected. He had a deep, visual understanding of nature.”
Collections of Suhay photos have been displayed in the arts center (there is a small collection there now), the Pueblo County Courthouse, at St. Mary-Corwin Medical Center, the Pueblo City-County Library District and elsewhere.
“I know his hope was to have his work archived with either the Pueblo County Historical Society or the Pueblo City-County Library District,” Daryl Suhay said Tuesday.
John Suhay and his widow Mary were married for 65 years. They have two children — son Daryl and daughter Kim Motter of Thornton. He is also survived by six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
July 24
Suhay-John Suhay,93. Montgomery & Steward.
Pueblo Chieftain Vital Stats Wed July 27 2016
John Suhay, 93, went to another place on July 25, 2016, leaving his wife, Mary; son, Daryl; daughter, Kim; grandchildren, Audra, Jacob, Andrea, Jason, Danielle, Mathew, Justin, Lindsey, Heather and Sergio; great-grandchildren, Ezekiel, Elias and Aden; special sister-in-law, Rose Mueller; niece, Barbara (John) Kendall; many nieces and nephews in the Pittsburgh, Pa., area; and special friends, Kenneth and Judith Williams.
John graduated from Avella High School in West Virginia. While serving in the U.S. Navy, he was a member of the Navy band, where he took pride in playing the tuba. John was resident photographer at Sangre de Cristo Arts & Conference Center for many years. He will be deeply missed. Online condolences, www.MontgomerySteward.com.
Pueblo Chieftain Fri July 29 2016
Pueblo Chieftain Wed Aug 03 2016 Page 2B
OBITUARY
Suhay captured Pueblo’s good and bad
But the 93-year-old photographer loved the city
BY PETER ROPER Watch the video THE PUEBLO CHIEFTAIN
John Suhay started “making pictures” with a little Brownie camera when he was just 17 — before World War II, before he became a Pueblo steelworker, before he became one of the bestknown photographers in Southern Colorado.
Suhay died July 25 from cancer. He was 93 but leaves behind thousands of images — especially his beloved black-andwhite photographs — of a long love affair with Pueblo.
No public services are planned.
Suhay could see purpose in the silhouette of the CF& I mill; humor in the handbags and hairdos of Junior League matrons or gap-toothed Colorado State Fair vendors; and delight in nature’s oddities, such as tree branches that formed the alphabet.
Teens fighting in a city park was an image. So were grinning, relieved people climbing off a Fair roller coaster.
“I try to see instantly, right now,” Suhay told a Colorado Springs reporter in 1981. “You’re not seeing the whole world, you’re seeing little bits of it. I hope before I’m done, I can shut my mind out — no thought, just vision.”
Ken Williams, the local ceramics artist, said Suhay had “the eye” of a great photographer. The two men were hired to be artists-in-residence at the Sangre de Cristo Arts and Conference Center in the early 1970s.
“John had a workman’s attitude toward his art,” Williams said. “He liked to get up every day, pick up his camera and document this town. I know he made me a better artist.”Suhay’s son Daryl said his father liked to capture life in Pueblo from every angle — good or bad. And that effort has left behind 20,000 blackand- white negatives and thousands of color slides as well.
“He loved Pueblo,” his son said. “Sometimes I think he wanted to kick us in the butt, to get our attention.”
Suhay was born in Wellsburg, W.Va., in 1923. He joined the Navy during World War II and was part of a Seabee construction battalion stationed in Dutch Harbor, in the Aleutian Islands.
He came to Pueblo in 1955 to work in the mill and did so until he was able to be a full-time photographer, both as a free-lancer and working for advertising agencies. And taking his own photos all the time.
“I can often tell a Suhay photo on sight,” said Williams. “John always had an eye for something quirky or unexpected. He had a deep, visual understanding of nature.”
Collections of Suhay photos have been displayed in the arts center (there is a small collection there now), the Pueblo County Courthouse, at St. Mary-Corwin Medical Center, the Pueblo City-County Library District and elsewhere.
“I know his hope was to have his work archived with either the Pueblo County Historical Society or the Pueblo City-County Library District,” Daryl Suhay said Tuesday.
John Suhay and his widow Mary were married for 65 years. They have two children — son Daryl and daughter Kim Motter of Thornton. He is also survived by six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Deaths-------------Pueblo
July 24
Suhay-John Suhay,93. Montgomery & Steward.
Pueblo Chieftain Vital Stats Wed July 27 2016
John Suhay, 93, went to another place on July 25, 2016, leaving his wife, Mary; son, Daryl; daughter, Kim; grandchildren, Audra, Jacob, Andrea, Jason, Danielle, Mathew, Justin, Lindsey, Heather and Sergio; great-grandchildren, Ezekiel, Elias and Aden; special sister-in-law, Rose Mueller; niece, Barbara (John) Kendall; many nieces and nephews in the Pittsburgh, Pa., area; and special friends, Kenneth and Judith Williams.
John graduated from Avella High School in West Virginia. While serving in the U.S. Navy, he was a member of the Navy band, where he took pride in playing the tuba. John was resident photographer at Sangre de Cristo Arts & Conference Center for many years. He will be deeply missed. Online condolences, www.MontgomerySteward.com.
Pueblo Chieftain Fri July 29 2016
Pueblo Chieftain Wed Aug 03 2016 Page 2B
OBITUARY
Suhay captured Pueblo’s good and bad
But the 93-year-old photographer loved the city
BY PETER ROPER Watch the video THE PUEBLO CHIEFTAIN
John Suhay started “making pictures” with a little Brownie camera when he was just 17 — before World War II, before he became a Pueblo steelworker, before he became one of the bestknown photographers in Southern Colorado.
Suhay died July 25 from cancer. He was 93 but leaves behind thousands of images — especially his beloved black-andwhite photographs — of a long love affair with Pueblo.
No public services are planned.
Suhay could see purpose in the silhouette of the CF& I mill; humor in the handbags and hairdos of Junior League matrons or gap-toothed Colorado State Fair vendors; and delight in nature’s oddities, such as tree branches that formed the alphabet.
Teens fighting in a city park was an image. So were grinning, relieved people climbing off a Fair roller coaster.
“I try to see instantly, right now,” Suhay told a Colorado Springs reporter in 1981. “You’re not seeing the whole world, you’re seeing little bits of it. I hope before I’m done, I can shut my mind out — no thought, just vision.”
Ken Williams, the local ceramics artist, said Suhay had “the eye” of a great photographer. The two men were hired to be artists-in-residence at the Sangre de Cristo Arts and Conference Center in the early 1970s.
“John had a workman’s attitude toward his art,” Williams said. “He liked to get up every day, pick up his camera and document this town. I know he made me a better artist.”Suhay’s son Daryl said his father liked to capture life in Pueblo from every angle — good or bad. And that effort has left behind 20,000 blackand- white negatives and thousands of color slides as well.
“He loved Pueblo,” his son said. “Sometimes I think he wanted to kick us in the butt, to get our attention.”
Suhay was born in Wellsburg, W.Va., in 1923. He joined the Navy during World War II and was part of a Seabee construction battalion stationed in Dutch Harbor, in the Aleutian Islands.
He came to Pueblo in 1955 to work in the mill and did so until he was able to be a full-time photographer, both as a free-lancer and working for advertising agencies. And taking his own photos all the time.
“I can often tell a Suhay photo on sight,” said Williams. “John always had an eye for something quirky or unexpected. He had a deep, visual understanding of nature.”
Collections of Suhay photos have been displayed in the arts center (there is a small collection there now), the Pueblo County Courthouse, at St. Mary-Corwin Medical Center, the Pueblo City-County Library District and elsewhere.
“I know his hope was to have his work archived with either the Pueblo County Historical Society or the Pueblo City-County Library District,” Daryl Suhay said Tuesday.
John Suhay and his widow Mary were married for 65 years. They have two children — son Daryl and daughter Kim Motter of Thornton. He is also survived by six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
July 24
Suhay-John Suhay,93. Montgomery & Steward.
Pueblo Chieftain Vital Stats Wed July 27 2016
John Suhay, 93, went to another place on July 25, 2016, leaving his wife, Mary; son, Daryl; daughter, Kim; grandchildren, Audra, Jacob, Andrea, Jason, Danielle, Mathew, Justin, Lindsey, Heather and Sergio; great-grandchildren, Ezekiel, Elias and Aden; special sister-in-law, Rose Mueller; niece, Barbara (John) Kendall; many nieces and nephews in the Pittsburgh, Pa., area; and special friends, Kenneth and Judith Williams.
John graduated from Avella High School in West Virginia. While serving in the U.S. Navy, he was a member of the Navy band, where he took pride in playing the tuba. John was resident photographer at Sangre de Cristo Arts & Conference Center for many years. He will be deeply missed. Online condolences, www.MontgomerySteward.com.
Pueblo Chieftain Fri July 29 2016
Pueblo Chieftain Wed Aug 03 2016 Page 2B
OBITUARY
Suhay captured Pueblo’s good and bad
But the 93-year-old photographer loved the city
BY PETER ROPER Watch the video THE PUEBLO CHIEFTAIN
John Suhay started “making pictures” with a little Brownie camera when he was just 17 — before World War II, before he became a Pueblo steelworker, before he became one of the bestknown photographers in Southern Colorado.
Suhay died July 25 from cancer. He was 93 but leaves behind thousands of images — especially his beloved black-andwhite photographs — of a long love affair with Pueblo.
No public services are planned.
Suhay could see purpose in the silhouette of the CF& I mill; humor in the handbags and hairdos of Junior League matrons or gap-toothed Colorado State Fair vendors; and delight in nature’s oddities, such as tree branches that formed the alphabet.
Teens fighting in a city park was an image. So were grinning, relieved people climbing off a Fair roller coaster.
“I try to see instantly, right now,” Suhay told a Colorado Springs reporter in 1981. “You’re not seeing the whole world, you’re seeing little bits of it. I hope before I’m done, I can shut my mind out — no thought, just vision.”
Ken Williams, the local ceramics artist, said Suhay had “the eye” of a great photographer. The two men were hired to be artists-in-residence at the Sangre de Cristo Arts and Conference Center in the early 1970s.
“John had a workman’s attitude toward his art,” Williams said. “He liked to get up every day, pick up his camera and document this town. I know he made me a better artist.”Suhay’s son Daryl said his father liked to capture life in Pueblo from every angle — good or bad. And that effort has left behind 20,000 blackand- white negatives and thousands of color slides as well.
“He loved Pueblo,” his son said. “Sometimes I think he wanted to kick us in the butt, to get our attention.”
Suhay was born in Wellsburg, W.Va., in 1923. He joined the Navy during World War II and was part of a Seabee construction battalion stationed in Dutch Harbor, in the Aleutian Islands.
He came to Pueblo in 1955 to work in the mill and did so until he was able to be a full-time photographer, both as a free-lancer and working for advertising agencies. And taking his own photos all the time.
“I can often tell a Suhay photo on sight,” said Williams. “John always had an eye for something quirky or unexpected. He had a deep, visual understanding of nature.”
Collections of Suhay photos have been displayed in the arts center (there is a small collection there now), the Pueblo County Courthouse, at St. Mary-Corwin Medical Center, the Pueblo City-County Library District and elsewhere.
“I know his hope was to have his work archived with either the Pueblo County Historical Society or the Pueblo City-County Library District,” Daryl Suhay said Tuesday.
John Suhay and his widow Mary were married for 65 years. They have two children — son Daryl and daughter Kim Motter of Thornton. He is also survived by six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
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