Stephens County GaArchives Obituaries.....Willie Franks Watkins March 7 1951
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J.C. Southerland deceased July 12, 2010 March 19, 2004, 10:25 am

Anderson Independent (?)
Toccoa, Ga., March 8 –Mrs. Willie Franks Watkins,
widely known Stephens County resident and widow of
James Hamp Watkins, died at her home on the Mize Road
at 10:30 Wednesday night following an extended
illness.

A Daughter of the late Billy Franks and Lizzie Crocker
Franks, she was born June 9, 1886 in Oconee, County,
S.C., but had lived in this section since she was a
young girl.

Her husband, the late James H. Watkins, died in 1939.

Mrs. Watkins leaves a host of relatives and friends
who deeply mourn her passing. She was a member of the
Sunny Side Baptist Church in Toccoa.

Survivors include six children, Winford Watkins,
Coleman Watkins, and Mrs. Doc Williams, all of Toccoa;
H.L. Watkins, of Atlanta: Miss Viola Watkins, and Mrs.
Bill Blackburn, both of Toccoa; eight step-children,
John Watkins, Dave Watkins, and George Watkins, all of
Eastanollee; Mrs. Lonnie Gurley, of Belton, S.C., Mrs.
H.M. Worley of Anderson, S.C., Mrs. Harold Perguson,
of Atlanta, Mrs. Bud Burnett, of Toccoa, and Mrs. J.E.
Spivey of Wilton, Calif.: three sisters, Mrs. Quint
Reed, of Seneca, S.C., Mrs. H.B. House of Toccoa, and
Mrs. Freeman Gibson, of Fair Play, S.C.; five
brothers, Bernice Franks and Clyde Franks, of Kings
Mountain, N.C., Reeves Franks , Bonner Franks, and
Marshall Franks, all of Seneca, S.C.

Funeral services will be held Friday at 2 p.m. from
the Sunnyside Baptist Church near Toccoa with the Rev.
Spence Phillips and the Rev. Ben Turner officiating.
Burial will be in Broad River Church Cemetery.

Officials of Stephens County will compose the escort
of Honor, and are asked to assemble at the church at
1:45 p.m.

Grandsons of Mrs. Watkins will serve as active
pallbearers. 

The Acree-Davis Funeral Home is in charge of
arrangements.


Additional Comments:
This obituary of my wife's grandmother was probably cut out of the Anderson 
Independent newspaper? she died March 7, 1951. 

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