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On the night of January 25, 1962, Nutter was headed to a speaking engagement in Cut Bank in Glacier County in northwestern Montana when the C-47 Skytrain, in which he was a passenger crashed in a blizzard with winds in exess of 100 miles per hour. The aircraft went down in Wolf Creek Canyon north of the capital city of [[Helena]].. Also killed in the crash were Dennis Gordon, his executive secretary; Edward Wren, commissioner of agriculture; and three members of the Montana Air National Guard.

On the night of January 25, 1962, Nutter was headed to a speaking engagement in Cut Bank in Glacier County in northwestern Montana when the C-47 Skytrain, in which he was a passenger crashed in a blizzard with winds in exess of 100 miles per hour. The aircraft went down in Wolf Creek Canyon north of the capital city of [[Helena]].. Also killed in the crash were Dennis Gordon, his executive secretary; Edward Wren, commissioner of agriculture; and three members of the Montana Air National Guard.

The caskets of Nutter, Wren, and Gordon, lay in state in the capitol under the watch of two Montana National Guardsmen.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070607054317/http://governor.mt.gov/news/pr.asp?ID=378|title=Governor Tom Judge to Lie In State in Supreme Court Chambers this Wednesday|accessdate=June 7, 2007|author=Sarah Elliott|date=September 11, 2006 |publisher=Montana Office of the Governor}}</ref> He was interred at the Sidney City Cemetery. Mrs. Nutter was interred beside her husband upon her death thirty-six years later. their son who died at the age of fifty-eight is interred at Cloverdale Memorial Park in the capital city of [[Boise]], [[Idaho]].<ref>John G Nutter (1948-2006) - Find A Grave Memorial, accessed July 28, 2021.</ref>

The caskets of Nutter, Wren, and Gordon, lay in state in the capitol under the watch of two Montana National Guardsmen.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070607054317/http://governor.mt.gov/news/pr.asp?ID=378|title=Governor Tom Judge to Lie In State in Supreme Court Chambers this Wednesday|accessdate=July 28, 2021|author=Sarah Elliott|date=September 11, 2006|publisher=Montana Office of the Governor}}</ref> He was interred at the Sidney City Cemetery. Mrs. Nutter was interred beside her husband upon her death thirty-six years later. their son who died at the age of fifty-eight is interred at Cloverdale Memorial Park in the capital city of [[Boise]], [[Idaho]].<ref>John G Nutter (1948-2006) - Find A Grave Memorial, accessed July 28, 2021.</ref>

At the Montana State Capitol in Helena, a bronze plaque remembers Nutter and the others who perished in the air crash.<ref>Charles S. Johnson, "Nutter, others honored with plaque," ''The Billings Gazette,'' September 15, 2006.</ref>

At the Montana State Capitol in Helena, a bronze plaque remembers Nutter and the others who perished in the air crash.<ref>Charles S. Johnson, "Nutter, others honored with plaque," ''The Billings Gazette,'' September 15, 2006.</ref>