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John E. Watkins

WATKINS, MORRIS, FORTUNE, SNEAD, DECKER

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart (email)
Date: 7/10/2006 at 16:49:14

Winterset Madisonian, Winterset, Iowa
September 14, 1988

JOHN E. WATKINS, Madrid

Services for John E. Watkins, 86, Madrid, who died Sept. 12, 1988, at the Madrid Home for the Aging, will be held at 1:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 15, at the Collins Funeral Home with the Rev. Clarence Lautt officiating. Burial will be at the Winterset Cemetery.

Born in Lyon County, Minn., on Jan. 36, 1902, he was the son of William D. and Nettie Watkins.

Mr. Watkins was a retired farmer and had lived 38 years in Truro area and Madison County. He had once lived in Hampton.

On May 8, 1929, he was married to Carrie Mae Morris in St. Louis, Mo.

Survivors include his wife; sons, Ralph Watkins of Marion and William "Bill" Watkins of Winterset; daughters, Eva Fortune of Macomb, Ill., and Donna Snead of Truro; brothers, Lyle Watkins of Charlo, Mont., Delbert Snyder of Montana, Rodney Watkins of Washington state, and Maurice Watkins of Winterset; a sister, Ruth Decker of Sagle, Idaho; 15 grandchildren and 18 great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his parents, and two brothers.


 

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