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1943
- Lampasas
Mrs. J. C. Watkins Died Here Last Friday P. M.
Mrs. J. C. Watkins,
a life time resident of Burnet County, died at the home
of her son, Joe
Watkins, here Friday, March 26, at 8: 40 p. m.
after a brief illness of pneumonia of two days.
She came here for a visit the Sunday before, being in
good health for her age up till her last illness.
Funeral services and burial were in the Holland cemetery
at 3:00 p. m. Sunday. Linnie
Nobles conducted the services.
Pallbearers were M. S.
and L. A. Warner, Forrest Shelby, Ira Feild, Buck
Fariss and Will Allen.
Mrs. Watkins was Nancy
Harriett Nicks before her marriage and was born
in Strickland community, Burnet county, September 27,
1866. She had lived in Burnet county all her life
and in Burnet the past several years, most of her life,
however, having been spent in the section near Lake
Victor.
Mrs. Watkins is survived by the following children; Mrs.
Henry Berry
of Lampasas, J. C.
Watkins Jr., of Electra, Joe
Watkins of Lampasas, Mrs.
K. M. Chambliss of California, Mrs.
O. R. Brewster of Burnet and Vernon
Watkins of California; by one brother, S.
I. Nicks of Eldorado, thirty grandchildren and
several great-grandhcildren.
All the children and the brother were here for the
funeral except the two in California. |
