WATKINS, Lee Ernest 1893-1953

WATKINS, MEALHOW, HALE, LEMON, WHEELER

Posted By: S. Bell
Date: 5/7/2014 at 23:29:45

[Waterloo Daily Courier, Friday, October 2, 1953, Waterloo, Iowa]

Lee Ernest Watkins, 60, of 707 Logan Ave., operator of a drug store many years, died Thursday at 3 p.m. in Schoitz Memorial Hospital of leukemia and complications.

Mr. Watkins was born jan. 16, 1893, at Eddyville, a son of William and Sarah Watkins. He graduated from high school there and enlisted in the Army at the outbreak of World War I and saw service in France.

He was married to Leona Mealhow June 28, 1922, at El Dorado, Kan., and graduated from the University of Nebraska school of pharmacy in 1924. The home was made at Lincoln, Neb., for a short time before he came to Waterloo.

He was employed four years by the B. W. Schuneman drug Co. and then opened his own establishment at 711 Logan Ave. where it has since been located.

Mr. Watkins was a member of the Methodist Church of Eddyville, Becker-Chapman post of the American Legion, Elks Lodge, Iowa Pharmaceutical Association and the National Druggists Association.

Surviving are his wife and a son Roland of 919 Conger St.: three sisters, Mrs. Arma Hale and Mrs. Elsie Lemon of Pasadena, Calif., and Mrs. Olla Wheeler of Eddyville and a half-brother, Patrick Dennin of Cedar Rapids.

The funeral has tentatively been set for Monday at Parrott & Wood Funeral Home, where the body may be viewed after Saturday noon.