Graveside service for Earl E. Watkins of Little Rock, Ark., will be held at 3 p.m. today at Pinecrest Memorial Park.
Roller-Drummond Funeral Home in Little Rock is in charge of arrangements.
Watkins, 82, died Sunday, March 29, 1998.
He was born Nov. 28, 1915, at Neelys Landing, son of Elmer and Emma Watkins.
Watkins retired as a sales representative for Eastman Kodak at Junkind Camera. He was a member of South Highland Baptist Church, and a retired coordinator of the Business Executive Club of Little Rock.
Survivors include his wife, Juanita; a son, Larry Watkins of Winston-Salem, N.C.; a daughter, Sherrye Sullenberger of West Monroe, La.; two brothers, Bill Watkins of Cape Girardeau, Gene Watkins of St. Louis; a sister, Ruth Tinsley of Cape Girardeau; seven grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by four brothers and three sisters.
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