
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, October 12, 1994                   TAG: 9410120091
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C-2   EDITION: METRO 
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HUGO N. SURMONTE, INDUSTRIALIST, 86, DIES

Hugo N. Surmonte, founder of Georgia Bonded Fibers/Bontex, which has a plant in Buena Vista, died Monday. He was 86.

Surmonte started the business, originally called the Georgia Leather Co., in Newark, N.J., in 1933 with $28 he borrowed from his wife, Marie Georgia Surmonte. He was chairman of the board and treasurer at the time of his death.

Among Surmonte's survivors is a daughter, restaurant critic Dolores Kostelni of Lexington.

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