SIKESTON -- A memorial service for John Watts of Portland, Ore., will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at Ponder Funeral Home. Burial will be private.
Friends may call at the funeral home Saturday from 9:30 a.m. until service time.
Watts, 90, died Saturday, June 8, 1996, in Portland.
He was born Oct. 5, 1905, in West Plains, son of Jerome and Emma Watts. He and Pearl Allard were married March 31, 1934. She died June 26, 1991.
Watts was a member of First United Methodist Church.
Survivors include two sons, John Watts of East Peoria, Ill., Jerry Watts of Portland; two grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by two brothers and three sisters.
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