February 26, 1998

HORTENSE WATKINS

BENTON -- Graveside service for Wilma Hortense Watkins of Benton will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at Memorial Park in Cape Girardeau. The Rev. Bennie Wilsey will officiate. There is no visitation. Amick-Burnett Funeral Home at Scott City is in charge of arrangements...

BENTON -- Graveside service for Wilma Hortense Watkins of Benton will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at Memorial Park in Cape Girardeau. The Rev. Bennie Wilsey will officiate.

There is no visitation.

Amick-Burnett Funeral Home at Scott City is in charge of arrangements.

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Watkins, 88, died Monday, Feb. 23, 1998, at Wilson Memorial Hospital in Wilson, N.C.

She was born July 22, 1909, in Cape Girardeau, daughter of Lee and Minnie Belle Edmonds Bagby. She and Harry Clay Watkins Jr. were married Dec. 29, 1932.

Watkins had been a high school teacher at Benton and Kelly School Districts. She was a member of Benton United Methodist Church.

Survivors include two daughters, Sally Stanley of Wilson, Diane Lawson of Fort Wayne, Ind.; and four grandchildren.

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