Ruth Blount Fentress – RIP

Ruth Blount Fentress, 86, who spent decades tracing the history of her own and other North Carolina families, died Sept. 8 at the Anne Arundel Medical Center in Annapolis after a heart attack.

Her death was confirmed by her niece, Cyndy Arthur-Rankin.

Mrs. Fentress became interested in genealogy when she was in her 30s. A charter member of the Order of the First Families of North Carolina, she was a contributor to publications including the Greene County Heritage Book.

Mrs. Fentress was a member of the Jamestowne Society, another genealogical organization.

Ruth Harriette Blount was born in Salisbury, N.C. She was a 1946 graduate of Wake Forest College in Winston-Salem, N.C., where she met Simmons Fentress. They married the year after her graduation.

Read the full obituary in the Septemeber 28, 2011 edition of the Washington Post.

About Leland Meitzler

Leland K. Meitzler founded Heritage Quest in 1985, and has worked as Managing Editor of both Heritage Quest Magazine and The Genealogical Helper. He currently operates Family Roots Publishing Company (www.FamilyRootsPublishing.com), writes daily at GenealogyBlog.com, writes the weekly Genealogy Newsline, conducts the annual Salt Lake Christmas Tour to the Family History Library, and speaks nationally, having given over 2000 lectures since 1983.

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