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Sunrise: December 27,1943 - Sunset: June 23, 2019 
Saturday, June 29,2019 1:00 P.M. 
Southeastern Technical College 
3001 East First Street, Building A 
Vidalia, Georgia 30474 
Presiding - Rev. Alvin Alexander 
Pastor/lsle of Hope Baptist Church Uvalda, GA 
Eulogist - Rev. Brendolyn Boseman 
Hudson Memorial CME, Augusta GA 
Oiden Sendee 
Processional/Viewing 
Invocation..................... Ministar William P. Sunkett 
Selection............Hudson Memorial C.M.E. Mass Choir 
Scripture 
Old Testament...................Rev. Janice Braddy 
New Testament..............Evangelist Tamela Bland 
Selection............Hudson Memorial C.M.E. Mass Choir 
Apostles Creed (Back of Program) - All Standing.......... 
Selection........................Uvalda Community Choir 
.......................................Sis Bettye Crawley 
Reflections 
As A Church Member............. Bro. John Kelley, Sr. 
As A Friend.......................Sis Annie Rodgers 
As a Sorority Sister...............Soro Kim Gaines 
Selection........................Uvalda Community Choir 
Acknowledgements.............Staff of Vidalia Funeral Home 
Obituary ..................................Read Si,entlV 
30l0.................................Sis. Auriyan Tillman 
Eulogy.........................Pastor Brendolyn Boseman 
Hudson Memorial C.M.E./Augusta, Georgia 
Recessional 
Obituary 
On June 23, 2019, the Lord picked the prettiest rose in the garden 
and called our beloved, Gwendolyn Rountree home. 
Gwendolyn Anita Coleman Rountree was born on December 27, 
1943 to Elijah Joseph Coleman and Pleasant Davis Coleman in 
Montgomery County (Uvalda), Georgia. She never experienced the joy of 
being in kindergarten, first or second grade. She started her first day of 
school in 3rd grade and later received her high school diploma as an honor 
graduate from the Montgomery County High School in Mt. Vernon, 
Georgia. She prepared herself to offer service to the education profession 
by completing requirements for the following: a B. S. degree from Fort 
Valley State College in the field of elementary education; certification in 
administration and supervision from the University of Georgia; a Master's 
(M. Ed.) degree in Middle Grades and a Specialist's (Ed. S.) degree in 
administration and supervision from Augusta College; and she completed 
coursework leading to a doctoral degree in educational administration 
from South Carolina State University. 
Her teaching experience included elementary, middle and 
secondary grade levels in the Columbia County and Richmond County 
school districts. She served as an instructional lead teacher and 
elementary school principal in Richmond and McDuffie County school 
systems, respectively. She served as assistant superintendent for Human 
Resources in the McDuffie County School District. 
Ms. Rountree was a 1992 finalist for the Georgia Association of 
Educators Outstanding Administrators Award; Augusta College's 1982 
Outstanding Graduate Student for the School of Education; selected as the 
1979 Woman of the Year and 1978 Citizen of the Year by the Augusta 
Branch of the National Association of University Women. She was elected 
Chairperson of the Georgia Teacher Education Council in 1981-82 and 
President of the Georgia Staff Development Council in 1996-97. In 1981 
she was appointed by the Governor of Georgia to the Consolidation of 
Education Programs Advisory Committee and in 1981-85 the Georgia 
Board of education appointed her to the Georgia Professional Practices 
Commission. She served on numerous local, state and national 
committees, commissions and boards of directors. She served as a 
member of the Board of Directors for the Delta House, Inc. and was an 
original incorporator of the Delta House, Inc. In December 2001, she was 
recognized in New Orleans, LA for completing two three-year terms on the 
Elementary Commission for Southern Association of Colleges and Schools 
- an accrediting agency for 11 southern states. While serving on the 
Commission, she represented the state of Georgia on the Central 
Reviewing Committee. Ms. Rountree is listed among the 2002 
International Who's Who of Public Service. 
In 1987, as president, she led the Augusta Alumnae Chapter of 
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. to purchase the home of Mrs. Lucy Craft 
Laney for the purpose of establishing a Museum of Black History and 
Conference Center 
Obituary Cont 
As a member of the Augusta Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma 
Theta Sorority, Inc., she served as president, 2nd vice president, 
parliamentarian and chairperson the Founders Day Committee. She also 
was active in the Thomson Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta 
Sorority, Inc. She has been very active over the years holding offices on 
the local, state and national levels. 
Additionally, she completed the training of trainers for 
Membership Intake and Collegiate Advisor. Ms. Rountree was a member 
of the Georgia School Superintendents Association where she was 
accepted into the Superintendent's Professional Development Program 
which is a training program for school superintendents. 
Ms. Rountree served on the board for Central Savannah River 
Area Economic Opportunity Authority (CSRA). She enjoyed reading and 
was the fastest reader imaginable. Therefore, it is not surprising to know 
that she was a board member for Augusta-Richmond County Public 
Library. 
After all is said and done, only what you do for Christ will last. Ms. 
Rountree was a devout Christian, the epitome of a true servant for Jesus 
Christ, who enjoyed bible study, Sunday school and being active in church. 
She joined Shiloh Baptist Church in Uvalda, Georgia at age 10. There she 
was very active in the Sunday School and B.T.U. until she moved away. 
She was a member of the Hudson Memorial C.M.E. Church in Augusta, 
Georgia. At Hudson Memorial CME, she served as church secretary, 
church musician and choir director, member of the Board of Trustees, 
superintendent of Sunday School, and director of Christian Education. She 
enjoyed being a missionary and was humble and ecstatic to receive the 
title as International Missionary for the CME churches. 
She was preceded in death by her father, Elijah Joseph Coleman; 
mother, Pleasant Davis Coleman; brothers, James Myrdic Coleman, 
Dolphus Coleman and Cephus R. Coleman; sisters Juanita Coleman, 
Eudene James and Hazel Coleman; uncles, P.J Coleman, Rev. C.B Coleman; 
aunt, Manoner Coleman; nephew Silas Dean James, niece Alfreda James 
and a beloved great nephew, Deriko Savalas Coleman. 
She leaves to cherish her memories, two sisters Faleda C. Brantley, 
Uvalda, Loise Alexander, Washington D.C.; six nieces, Denise Siau 
(Rodney), Albany, Ga, Linda Brantley and Brenda Hill of Uvalda, Myra 
Bentley (John), Vidalia, Gloria Jackson (Larry), Valdosta, Loise Brinson, 
Statesboro, Tamela Bland (Tracey), Hazlehurst; four nephews, Dolphus 
Coleman, Jr., Ft. Lauderdale, FL; Richard Brantley, Uvalda, Rev. Alvin 
Alexander, Atlanta, Austin Alexander, Washington, DC and a special 
friend, Dr. Garner Hobbs, Augusta; a devoted friend since 1965, Ms. Sue 
Jackson, Augusta; a beloved Pastor, Rev. Brendolyn Boseman; a host of 
great nephews, great nieces, cousins, and many devoted friends. 
Menume# 
The Apostles' Creed 
I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth: And in 
Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord, Who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, 
Born of the Virgin Mary, Suffered under Pontius Pilate, Was crucified, 
dead, and buried: On The third day he rose from the dead; He ascended 
into heaven, And sitteth at the right hand of God the Father Almighty; 
From thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead I believe in the 
Holy Spirit; The holy catholic Church; The Communion of Saints; The 
Forgiveness of sins; The Resurrection of the body, And Life everlasting. 
Amen