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Brooksville Grandfather Dies After Striking Trees With Car

November 10, 2005

According to an accident report from the Florida Highway Patrol, Mr. Jimmie Hutton's car was traveling north when it left U.S. 41, went across the east shoulder and struck some trees. He died at the scene at age 75. Emergency workers think he had a heart attack, the report says, but the cause of death was not official.

Jimmie Hutton cooked homemade waffles for three of his grandchildren that morning at his Floral City home. He drove them in his white Lincoln Town Car down U.S. 41 and dropped them off at school at Hernando Christian Academy. Then he turned around to go back home, but the Class of 1949 Hernando High School grad never made it.

Mr. Hutton, those who knew him said, was a Brooksville boy, a wonderful son, a family man, a married man for 55 years, a churchgoer, a former police officer and sheriff's deputy, a lover of food and animals and lots and lots of Christmas lights. 'One of the best people who ever lived,' said his wife, Bette Lou Hutton, 71, by phone.