Gates County NcArchives Obituaries.....Rountree, Oscar 1958
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Suffolk News-Herald, Volume 36, Number 84, Wed., 9 April 1958, p. 2
OSCAR ROUNTREE

Oscar Rountree Funeral Thursday

  Funeral services for Oscar Rountree will be conducted tomorrow at 4 p.m. at 
the Hill Funeral Home by the Rev. George D. Alley, pastor of the Suffolk 
Christian Church and the Rev. R.E. Brittle, pastor of Bethlehem Christian 
Church.  Burial will be in Holly Lawn Cemetery.

  Mr. Rountree, 62, of 901 North Carolina Highway, died yesterday at 7:15 p.m. 
in the Obici Memorial Hospital after an illness of several months.

  He was a native of Gates County, N. C., and was a prominent farmer and 
businessman of Nansemond County.  He had lived in the county the last 39 years.

  He was a son of the late Willie and Mrs. Alethia Ward Rountree of Gates 
County.  He was a member of the Suffolk Christian Church.

  Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Edith Wilkins Rountree; one daughter, Miss Helen 
Rountree, and one son, Melvin Rountree, all of the home; one sister, Mrs. Nina 
Barnes of Suffolk; four half-sisters, Mrs. Mabel Dygert of Las Vegas, Nev.; Mrs. 
O.K. Thomas and Mrs. Louise Foster, both of Norfolk, and Mrs. W.H. Cartwright of 
South Mills, N.C.; one brother, Lonnie Rountree of Hertford, N.C.


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