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Amelia Valdeaurine Rucker was born August 6, 1917 in Carroll County, Tennessee, she was the daughter of the late Edmund Birten Rucker and Velma Patterson Rucker. An alumnus of the University of Tennessee at Martin, she was a public school teacher for 5 years, and was later employed by the State of Tennessee, Department of Human Services, for 27 years as a Senior Social Counselor. Eight years after retirement, she returned to work as a Child/Family Advocate with Tennessee Cares, retiring at the age of 83. In 1957, she and her late husband established a farming interest on land that had been in the Routon family for over 150 years.
On June 2, 1940, Val married Stephen James Routon, Jr. , who died September 15, 2001. She is survived by 3 children: Gini Routon Williams of River Forest, Illinois. Stephanie Routon Tayloe (Keith Paschall) , and Richard Rucker Routon (Sheila). She died in 2015 and is buried in Maplewood Cemetery in Paris, TN.