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The Sudduth family has always made history on Vashon Island. Not long after arriving there in 1920, P. Monroe Smock founded the Vashon Island News Record, which his daughter, Agnes, took over eight years later and ran until 1942.
Last December, the family made a different, sadder sort of history when Thomas Sudduth — Agnes’ grandson — became the first islander to die from…
