VANDUSER -- Funeral for Shea Mikel Watkins of Vanduser will be held at 2 p.m. today at Nunnelee Funeral Chapel in Sikeston. The Rev. Glenn Rogers will officiate, with burial in Forest Hills Cemetery at Morley.
Shea, 10, died Monday, March 13, 2000, when hit by a tractor-trailer grain truck while riding his bicycle at Vanduser and Beech Streets.
He was born April 17, 1989, in Salt Lake City, Utah, son of Paul Michael and Maria Teresa Jensen Watkins.
She was a fourth-grade student at Scott County Central School.
Survivors include his father of Vanduser, his mother of Las Vegas, Nev.; a brother, Zachary Jones of Bakersfield, Calif.; a sister, Lisa Kesler of Bell City; paternal grandmother, Elizabeth "Adil" Watkins of Vanduser; and maternal grandfather, Bob Jensen of Salt Lake City.
He was preceded in death by his paternal grandfather and maternal grandmother.
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