Nansemond County-Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Rountree, M. Odey Howell, 1932 

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MARY ODEY HOWELL ROUNTREE 

   Mrs. Odie Rountree, aged 83, widow of Miles Rountree and resident of 
Suffolk for the greater part of her life, died Wednesday morning at 8:30 
at the home of D.A. Winslow, where she had been residing with her daughter, 
Miss Lillian Rountree.

   Mrs. Rountree was an active member of the First Baptist Church for 41 
years and before that time had held membership in Great Fork Baptist Church, 
of the county.

   Surviving are a daughter, Miss Lilian Rountree; a son, C.J. Rountree of 
Suffolk; a brother, J.R. Howell of Franklin; seven grandchildren, Miss Alma 
Rountree, Miss Jessie Rountree, Mrs. J.H. Wesson, Miles Rountree and R.R. 
Harrell, Jr., of Suffolk; Mrs. T.C. White of Ocean View, and Mrs. G.H. Allen 
of Philadelphia and four great-grandchildren.

   Funeral services were conducted in Suffolk Thursday afternoon at 3:30 
o’clock at the First Baptist Church by the Rev. H.J. Goodwin, D.D., pastor, 
assisted by the Rev. W.W. Staley, the Rev. H.S. Hardcastle of Suffolk, and 
the Rev. Sparks W. Welton of Norfolk.

   Active pallbearers were: Marshall, W.T., P.T., John, Harvey, Frank and 
Robert Howell, Edgar Rawls and Stanley Holland.


Mary Odey (HOWELL; Mrs. Miles) ROUNTREE, formerly of Suffolk, 
b. 10 Mar 1849, Gates Co., NC*, d. 30 Mar 1932, at home, Norfolk, 
interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery (Block I, Lot 68**), Suffolk, 31 Mar 1932, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Apr. 1, 1932, p. 1 

**Cedar Hill list, an extension of the Southampton County 
   Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/cedar_p.txt 

*Birthdate &c. from D.Cert. 4956 (Norfolk #439), which gives b. Nansemond Co. 


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