Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Rountree, Oscar, 1958 

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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. 


Oscar ROUNTREE, Nansemond Co. farmer & businessman, 
b. 3 Sep 1895, Gates Co., NC, d. 8 Apr 1958, Suffolk, 
interred in Holly Lawn Cemetery (Block E, Lot 7*), Suffolk, 10 Apr 1958, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 36, No. 84, Wed., Apr. 9, 1958, p. 2 

*Additional information: 

Holly Lawn list, an extension of the 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/hollyln.txt 

A photo of his gravestone - added by Hixburg23958 - is posted with 
   Find a Grave Memorial #51354075. 

D.Cert. 11085 (Chuckatuck #100) 

His father, Thomas William "Willie" ROUNTREE (1864 - 1943), & step-mother 
   are buried in Eureka Baptist Church Cemetery, Corapeake, Gates Co., NC. 

Willie 1m. Oscar's mother Alethia WARD 16 Jan 1890.  He 2m. Luna JONES 
   18 Oct 1904; both in Gates Co., NC. 


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