Isle of Wight County-Newport News Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Rouse, William E., 1945 

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WILLIAM ELMORE ROUSE 

W.E. ROUSE, 76, A NATIVE OF SMFLD., BURIED RECENTLY 

  Newport News - William Elmore Rouse, 76, retired Newport News businessman 
long active in community development, died at his home Wednesday, June 20th 
following a recent heart attack.

  Mr. Rouse, a native of Smithfield, was the principal shareholder in the 
Newport News Daily Press, Inc., publishers of the Daily Press and Times-
Herald.  He owned the first firm to equip itself with motor transportation 
when the automobile industry was in its infancy and in other ways was a 
pioneer in this area.  In 1926, he was a delegate of the Newport News Rotary 
Club to an international convention in Brussels.

  His wife, the former Miss Edna Sue Hudgins of York County, died in 1924.

  He is survived by his daughter, Mrs. Raymond B. Bottom of Newport News; 
two sisters, Mrs. Martha Virginia Joyner of Elizabeth City County, and Mrs. 
Sarah Elizabeth Hutchins of Portsmouth; 3 grandchildren, Barbara, Dorothy, 
and Raymond E. Bottom, Jr.

  Mr. Rouse operated the Rouse Funeral Home in Smithfield up until several 
months ago when he sold it to Jesse L. Jones because of ill health.


William Elmore ROUSE, retired businessman - publisher & undertaker, 
b. 26 Jul 1868, Smithfield, d. 20 Jun 1945, Newport News, 
interred in Greenlawn Memorial Park*, Newport News, 
"The Smithfield (VA) Times," Vol. 28, No. 13, June 27, 1945 

*Birthdate from his Find a Grave Memorial, #85684922; a photo of the 
   marble slab which covers his grave is included. 


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