Rosabel Watkins Sheets

SHEETS, WATKINS, EVANS, ALEXANDER

Posted By: Connie Street (email)
Date: 9/9/2002 at 00:50:02

The Life Story of Rosabel Watkins Sheets

Van Buren County Register

Thursday, May 2,1957

Rosabel Watkins (Sheets), youngest child of John and Ann Evans Watkins was born Aug.8, 1881, and passed away April 24, 1957 at the Van Buren Memorial Hospital after a short illness. The funeral services were held at the Mt. Sterling Methodist church on April 27,1957.

She joined the Center Chapel Methodist church at an early age, and later transferred her membership to the Bethlehem Baptist church near Luray, Mo.

On Sept. 23, 1903 she married Henry E. Sheets of Mt. Sterling, Iowa. To this union three children were born: Leonard Leon, Hazel Mae and Edgar Franklin. She has spent all the years of her life in Van Buren County except for the 17 years she and her husband and children lived in Missouri, about 10 miles south of Mt. Sterling, Iowa.

She and her husband and oldest son Leonard moved to Mt. Sterling in 1943. There her husband passed away Aug. 29, 1944. She and her son, Leonard, continued to make their home in Mt. Sterling until her recent illness and death.

She leaves to mourn her passing, her children, Leonard at home, Mrs. Hazel Alexander and her husband, Gene of near Mt. Sterling, and Edgar and his wife, Helen, who reside in Alexandria, Mo. Also five grandchildren, Leon Alexander, attending school (college) at Iowa City; Donald Alexander, Chicago,Ill; Connie Alexander and Rosalie and Wanda Sheets. One grandchild, Claude Edgar Sheets died in infancy, March 11, 1944. She was the last surviving member of her family of nine. She also leaves four sisters-in-law and two brothers-in-law, many nephews and nieces and a host of friends.

She was a kind and loving mother and a true friend to all who knew her. She attended church as long as her health permitted and the Bible was a constant comfort to her.