Biography of Chandler G Watkins, St Francis County, AR

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Submitted by: Paul V Isbell
        Date: 19 Nov 2008
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The younger member of Watkin's Caf‚ management along with Paul H. Graves, and
his mother, Mrs. Troy Watkins, is Chandler, the younger son, who joined the firm
in 1946 after three years in the SP2-U. S. Navy during World War II. He had
enlisted in 1943 while working for the Lockheed Aircraft Corp. in California. He
was born in Stuttgart and finished high school there and then worked with his
mother in the Merchants Cooperative Delivery. In 1940 he married MIss Dorothy
Schmid, daughter of Mrs. King (Sanderson) Schmid and the late Elbert Schmid. To
this union had been born two children. He is a member of the Chamber of
Commerce, Forrest City Country Club, and the King-Beazley American Legion Post.
He also has other business interests in the city. The firm has just opened a new
Watkin's Caf‚ in West Memphis and he is spending most of his time there.


SOURCE:
HISTORY of ST. FRANCIS COUNTY, ARKANSAS, 1954 - Robert W. Chowning

Copyright, with Permission: Weston McCollum Lewey, Publisher
-Times Herald Publishing-Forrest City, Arkansas