Mattie H. Pouncy

Former Princeton resident
    AUSTELL, Ga. — Mattie Hunter Pouncy, formerly of Princeton, died Wednesday at a hospice in Austell. She was 83.
   She lived in Princeton from 1972 to 2002 and then moved to Atlanta.
   Author of a self-published novel, “Reach a Little Deeper,” Mrs. Pouncy taught elementary school and special education classes in the New Brunswick and Franklin Township public schools in the 1970s and 1980s.
   She was a graduate of Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, Ala., and the College of New Jersey.
   She is survived by her husband of 59 years, Dr. Hillard Pouncy Jr., a research scientist who retired from Union Carbide in the 1990s; son Hillard Pouncy III, a visiting lecturer at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University; brothers Woodrow Hunter of East Windsor and William Hunter of Connecticut; sisters Evelyn, Clearine and Betty Joyce of New York, Eloise of Chicago and Julia of Washington, D.C.; and grandson Hillard T. Pouncy.
   Burial will be Tuesday at Georgia National Cemetery, Canton, Ga.