The Virginian-Pilot
                             THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT 
              Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Thursday, December 7, 1995             TAG: 9512070295
SECTION: LOCAL                    PAGE: B9   EDITION: FINAL 
DATELINE: AHOSKIE                            LENGTH: Short :   27 lines

SUDIE R. UMPHLETTE

Sudie Roughton Umphlette, 86, of Route 1, died Dec. 6, 1995, in Brian Center Health and Retirement Center, Windsor, N.C.

Mrs. Umphlette, the widow of Willie Umphlette, was a native of Tyrrell County, N.C. She was a homemaker and a member of Columbia Baptist Church, Columbia, N.C.

Survivors include three daughters, Cora Vaughan of Colerain, N.C., Mae Cummings of Ahoskie, and Ilida Toussaint of Chesapeake; a son, Eddie Lawrence of Ahoskie; a sister, Stella Rhodes of Columbia; two brothers, Cecil Roughton, Clarence Roughton, both of Columbia; 20 grandchildren; 26 great-grandchildren; and three great-great-grandchildren.

The funeral will be conducted at 2 p.m. Friday in Garrett Funeral Home, Ahoskie, by the Rev. Ronald McSwain. Burial will be in Highland Memorial Gardens. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 7 to 8 p.m. today, and other times at the home of Viola Lawrence, Route 1, Ahoskie.

KEYWORDS: DEATH OBITUARY by CNB