THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1997, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Thursday, January 30, 1997 TAG: 9701300299
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B9 EDITION: FINAL
DATELINE: SMITHFIELD LENGTH: 29 lines
Judith Daughtrey Rountree, 48, of the 200 block of River Oaks Lane, died Jan. 28, 1997.
A native of Franklin, she was a daughter of the late Clayton Carson Daughtrey. Mrs. Rountree was a graduate of Windsor High School, Old Dominion University and attended Elon College. Over a period of 25 years, she taught pre-school to seventh-graders in the Nansemond Suffolk Academy and the Isle of Wight Public Schools Systems. She was a member of Smithfield Baptist Church, where she was a former Sunday School teacher, director of the youth department, a Bible school teacher, Girls in Action leader, youth leader, youth ministries committee, of which she had served as chairman and former chairman of the youth recognition committee. She was a past president, treasurer and adviser of Beta Sigma Phi, past president and vice president of Delta Kappa Gamma and past chaplain of Alpha XI Delta. Mrs. Rountree was listed in Outstanding Young Women and Outstanding Young Women of the South.
Survivors include her husband, C. Bailey Rountree; a son, Matthew Bailey Rountree of Smithfield; her mother and stepfather, Blannie Barden Porter and Ray Porter of Franklin; a sister, Rita Byrum Nurney of Carrsville; several nieces and nephews.
A funeral will be conducted at 2 p.m. Friday in R.W. Baker and Co. Funeral Home, Suffolk, by Dr. Donald Rhoton. Burial will be in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Suffolk. Memorial donations may be made to a charity of choice.
KEYWORDS: DEATH OBITUARY