ROUNSAVILLE RITES AT SWEETWATER

Sweetwater - Funeral was to be held at 3 p.m. Friday in the Evangelical Methodist Church for Mrs. D. Rounsaville, 79, who died Thursday in Simmons Memorial Hospital. The Rev. Jack W. Wease, pastor, was to officiate with burial at Coffee Cemetery at Bitter Creek community directed by Cate-Spencer Funeral Home.

Born Elizabeth Coffee in Concho County on Sept. 2, 1879, she moved to Nolan County when she was two years old. Following their marriage on Sept. 11, 1905, Mr. and Mrs. Rounsaville lived in the Eskota community until moving to Sweetwater about a year ago.

In ill health over a year, Mrs. Rounsaville was in the hospital 10 days.

Survivors include her husband; two sons, Joe of Pecos and Henry of Kemp; one daughter, Mrs. Irene Greenshaw of Abilene; one sister, Mrs. Francis Rasberry of Fort Worth; four half-sisters, Mrs. Marvin Chitwood of Shep, Mrs. Mary L. Brown of Phoenix, Ariz., Mrs. Nick Williams and Mrs. Gerald Witt, both of Sweetwater; six half-brothers, John Boyd of Mertzon, and George, Bill, Joe, C. C. and Jess Boyd, all of Sweetwater; and four grandchildren.

From The Abilene (TX) Reporter, Friday, Dec. 19, 1958
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NOLAN COUNTY DEATH CERTIFICATE

Name: Elizabeth Coffee Rounsaville
Death date: 12 Dec 1958
Death place: Simmons Memorial Hospital, Sweetwater, Nolan, Texas
Cause of death: Arteriosclerotic and hypertensive heart disease
Gender: Female
Race or color (on document): White
Age at death: 79 years
Birth date: 02 Sep 1879
Birth place: Concho Co., Texas
Marital status: Married
Spouse name:
Father name: Ely Coffee
Father birth place:
Mother name: Martha Byrd
Mother birth place:
Occupation: Housewife
Residence: Sweetwater, Nolan, Texas
Cemetery name: Coffee
Burial place: Lake Sweetwater, Nolan, Texas
Burial date: 19 Dec 1958
Informant: D. Rounsaville
Film number: 2115624
Digital GS number: 4166751
Image number: 3263
Reference number: bk 147 cn 73261
Collection: Texas Deaths, 1890-1976
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