Arlington, VA--OTTILIE E. UNDERWOOD, 83, a former teacher and Woodward & Lothrop saleswoman, died of cancer July 23 at the Hermitage Nursing Home in Alexandria.
Mrs. Underwood, who lived in Arlington, was born in Dutchtown, Mo. She graduated from Southeast Missouri State Teachers College, and as a young woman she taught grade school in Cape Girardeau, Mo.
She moved to the Washington area in 1931. From 1945 until 1960, she taught at the Jack and Jill Day School in Hyattsville, and then worked as a saleswoman in the stationery department of the Woodward & Lothrop downtown store until retiring in 1974.
Her husband, Thomas L. Underwood, died in 1974.
Survivors include two sons, Thomas L. Underwood Jr. of Arlington and Robert E. Underwood of Riverdale; and a sister, Ernestine Sudekum of Gordonsville, Mo.  --Washington Post, The (DC) - July 24, 1990