Margaret Emily Rountree

F, #799, b. Oct 13, 1912, d. Dec 11, 2003
RelationshipAunt of Carolyn Anne Euler
ChartsRountree Descendants Chart
Father*Dorsey Sanderlin Rountree b. Mar 13, 1873, d. Jan 11, 1959
Mother*Ambronetta Corbitt b. Dec 12, 1870, d. Aug 22, 1942

Family

Walter Aleck Ward Sr. b. Sep 27, 1912, d. Nov 25, 1990
Children

Chronological Events

Birth*Oct 13, 1912 Margaret Emily Rountree was born on Oct 13, 1912 at Sunbury, Gates County, North Carolina, United States
 She was the daughter of Dorsey Sanderlin Rountree and Ambronetta Corbitt
Marriage*Dec 19, 1931 Margaret Emily Rountree married Walter Aleck Ward Sr., son of Aleck Samuel Ward and Frances Amanda Knight, on Dec 19, 1931.1 
Residence*2002 Margaret Emily Rountree lived in 2002 at Corapeake, Gates County, North Carolina, United States
Death*Dec 11, 2003 She died on Dec 11, 2003, at age 91 at Nansemond Pointe Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center, Suffolk, City of Suffolk, Virginia, United States.2 
ObituaryDec 13, 2003  OBITUARY: Margaret Rountree Ward, 91, formerly of the 1500 block of Middle Swamp Road, died Dec. 11, 2003, in Nansemond Pointe Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center, Suffolk.

Mrs. Ward was born in Gates County, N.C. and was one of seven children of the late Dorsey and Nettie Corbitt Rountree. For more than 60 years, she was an active member of Eureka Baptist Church where she had been a choir member and had taught Sunday school. She had served in leadership capacities in the Corapeake Extension Homemakers Club, the Gates County Council of Extension Homemakers Clubs and the NC Homemakers Association. A member of the Holly Rebekah Lodge of the Rebekah Assembly, International Order of Oddfellows of NC, she had served as district president and as president of the Rebekah Assembly of NC.

Mrs. Ward was instrumental in organizing the Gates County Unit of the American Cancer Society and served as state director and president of the local chapter for a number of years. She had been a member of the Democratic Party since 1933 and for a number of years served as precinct vice-chairman and later as precinct chairman.

Preceded in death by her husband, Walter Aleck Ward Sr. and her son, John Atwood Ward, she is survived by her children, son, Walter A. Ward Jr. and wife Etheleen of Chesapeake, daughter, Frances Ward Brooks and husband William and son, Thomas A. Ward and wife Betty, all of Raleigh; her daughter-in-law, Annie Marie Ward of Suffolk; 10 grandchildren, Michelle Ward Bunch, Walter A. Ward III, William M. Brooks Jr., Robert W. Brooks, Amanda Brooks Carson, Elizabeth T. Brooks, John A. Ward II, Beth Ward Langston, Thomas Alan Ward Jr. and David A. Ward; and 10 great-grandchildren.

A funeral will be held Sunday at 3:30 p.m. in Eureka Baptist Church by the Rev. Cameron Currin. Burial will follow in the church cemetery. Friends may join the family today from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in Miller Funeral Home, Gatesville. Memorial contributions may be made to the American Heart Association, the Nansemond-Suffolk Rescue Squad or to the building fund of Eureka Baptist Church.

Published in The Virginian-Pilot, VA - December 2003.3
 
Burial*Dec 14, 2003 She was buried on Dec 14, 2003 at Eureka Baptist Church Cemetery, Corapeake, Gates County, North Carolina, United States, Find A Grave Memorial# 93484395.4

Citations

  1. [S740] Personal Knowledge - McKown, Malcolm K., online at e-mail address.
  2. [S51] Social Security Death Index (SSDI).
  3. [S19] Obituary - Online, Newspaper or Funeral Home.
  4. [S58] Gravestones - Death Cert, Find-A-Grave, BillionGraves.