Royel Frederick Montieth's Obituary
ROYEL FREDERICK MONTIETH, native Houstonian and former engineering manger at Fred Allen Company, passed away on Monday, the 5th of March 2018, at the age of 78. Mr. Montieth was born on the 3rd of September 1939 in Bellaire, Texas to Clifton and Mary Montieth. He attended San Jacinto High School when at the age of 16 he took the entrance exam at the University of Houston, passed it and enrolled at the U of H in the Fall of 1956. Mr. Montieth attended graduate school at Faith Theological Seminary which is a conservative evangelical Christian seminary, located in Philadelphia where he studied for the ministry. In 1961, he and Shirley Wood were married. Mr. Montieth also worked at several plastics injection molding companies besides the Fred Allen Company, Litton Resource Systems, Blackwell Plastics where he was a mold design engineer and also for PFI Plastics. On August 6th, 1980, Royel was awarded a patent for his invention of an “injection mold valve” which the plastics industry still utilizes. Royel met Karen Blackwell in 1987 while he worked at Blackwell Plastics and they married and had one son Matthew. Mr. Montieth later retired and was living at the Terrace Apartments which is now Brookdale Memorial City where he established several close friendships that enriched his life greatly. He was a member of the Grace Community Church where he attended regularly.Mr. Montieth was preceded in death by his father Clifton Buster Montieth. He is survived by his son Matthew and former wife Karen Blackwell and Hassan El-Diqran; his mother Mary Freda Jenkins; his bothers Clifton Montieth and Larae, Jack Montieth and Paula; his sisters Mary Ann May, Patsy Graham and Rob. Also one niece Pam and nephew Vance and former wife Shirley Wood. Friends are cordially invited to a visitation with the family from 12:00 in the afternoon until 1:00 followed by the funeral service which is to be conducted at 1:00 in the afternoon on Tuesday, the 13th of March, in the chapel of South Park Funeral Home. The internment will follow, at Forest Park Lawndale Cemetary in Houston.
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