Born in the Texas Panhandle, Dudley was the eighth and last child of Andy and Maude Rountree from east Texas. He attended Clovis High School in Clovis, NM during the Depression and in 1936 moved to San Francisco, continuing a job he had in Clovis with the U.S. Public Health Service working to control the spread the Bubonic Plague in the west. Dudley brought his parents from Texas to Menlo Park, CA and soon after several brothers and sisters followed.
During WWII, Dudley participated in the invasion of Guadalcanal in the South Pacific as munitions and supply support for the U.S. Marines, 1st Regiment. After the Marine invation of the Peleliu Islands north of Australia, his unit was preparing to invade Japan, when the war ended. During two tours of combat Dudley made four trips out to the battle fields, becoming a Master Sergeant by discharge in 1946.
On March 3, 1945 he married Catherine Murray, a Woman Marine, in Little Rock, Arkansas. Soon after, they moved to Redwood City where Dudley and his brother, Spencer, started the Rountree Sheet Metal and Heating Company in San Carlos, CA. Their father Andy had been a tinsmith in Texas and NM.
Dudley and "Kay," built a home in Menlo Park in 1958 and raised five children, Tom, David, Michael, Philip and Nancy. An avid student of U.S. military history, Dudley was the last of his generation of family members and the patriarch and mentor of the Rountree family history.
During WWII, Dudley participated in the invasion of Guadalcanal in the South Pacific as munitions and supply support for the U.S. Marines, 1st Regiment. After the Marine invation of the Peleliu Islands north of Australia, his unit was preparing to invade Japan, when the war ended. During two tours of combat Dudley made four trips out to the battle fields, becoming a Master Sergeant by discharge in 1946.
On March 3, 1945 he married Catherine Murray, a Woman Marine, in Little Rock, Arkansas. Soon after, they moved to Redwood City where Dudley and his brother, Spencer, started the Rountree Sheet Metal and Heating Company in San Carlos, CA. Their father Andy had been a tinsmith in Texas and NM.
Dudley and "Kay," built a home in Menlo Park in 1958 and raised five children, Tom, David, Michael, Philip and Nancy. An avid student of U.S. military history, Dudley was the last of his generation of family members and the patriarch and mentor of the Rountree family history.
Born in the Texas Panhandle, Dudley was the eighth and last child of Andy and Maude Rountree from east Texas. He attended Clovis High School in Clovis, NM during the Depression and in 1936 moved to San Francisco, continuing a job he had in Clovis with the U.S. Public Health Service working to control the spread the Bubonic Plague in the west. Dudley brought his parents from Texas to Menlo Park, CA and soon after several brothers and sisters followed.
During WWII, Dudley participated in the invasion of Guadalcanal in the South Pacific as munitions and supply support for the U.S. Marines, 1st Regiment. After the Marine invation of the Peleliu Islands north of Australia, his unit was preparing to invade Japan, when the war ended. During two tours of combat Dudley made four trips out to the battle fields, becoming a Master Sergeant by discharge in 1946.
On March 3, 1945 he married Catherine Murray, a Woman Marine, in Little Rock, Arkansas. Soon after, they moved to Redwood City where Dudley and his brother, Spencer, started the Rountree Sheet Metal and Heating Company in San Carlos, CA. Their father Andy had been a tinsmith in Texas and NM.
Dudley and "Kay," built a home in Menlo Park in 1958 and raised five children, Tom, David, Michael, Philip and Nancy. An avid student of U.S. military history, Dudley was the last of his generation of family members and the patriarch and mentor of the Rountree family history.
During WWII, Dudley participated in the invasion of Guadalcanal in the South Pacific as munitions and supply support for the U.S. Marines, 1st Regiment. After the Marine invation of the Peleliu Islands north of Australia, his unit was preparing to invade Japan, when the war ended. During two tours of combat Dudley made four trips out to the battle fields, becoming a Master Sergeant by discharge in 1946.
On March 3, 1945 he married Catherine Murray, a Woman Marine, in Little Rock, Arkansas. Soon after, they moved to Redwood City where Dudley and his brother, Spencer, started the Rountree Sheet Metal and Heating Company in San Carlos, CA. Their father Andy had been a tinsmith in Texas and NM.
Dudley and "Kay," built a home in Menlo Park in 1958 and raised five children, Tom, David, Michael, Philip and Nancy. An avid student of U.S. military history, Dudley was the last of his generation of family members and the patriarch and mentor of the Rountree family history.
Inscription
Tough, Loyal - A True Hero - My Dad
Memorial Bench at Wunderlich County Park in Woodside, San Mateo County, CA
