EDITH LAURA PALMER WATSON, Obituary, 14 Feb 2001, Madison County, GA

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Story last updated at 7:55 p.m. on Thursday, February 15, 2001

Edith Watson 
Athens 

Edith Laura Palmer Watson, 81, died Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2001.

A native of Madison County, Mrs. Watson was a daughter of the late 
George and Annie Wade Palmer and was the widow of Cartee Watson. She 
was a homemaker and attended Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, 
Watkinsville.

Services will be at 2 p.m. today at Lord and Stephens Funeral Home, 
Danielsville, with the Revs. Douglas Hammond and Nathan Palmer 
officiating. Burial will be in Vineyards Creek Baptist Church 
cemetery.

Survivors include three daughters, Joann Howard, McDonough, Shirley 
Wilbanks, Athens, and Wanda Capes, Alto; two sons, William Watson, 
Milledgeville, and O.D. Watson, Athens; three sisters, Pauline Seay, 
Danielsville, Dorothy Morris and Flora Brown, both of Colbert; a 
brother, Billy Palmer, Comer; nine grandchildren; and 17 great-
grandchildren.

Grandsons will serve as pallbearers.

Athens Daily News, Friday, Feb. 16, 2001