Jackson-Jones County IA Archives Obituaries.....Chase, Craig Donald  January 16, 1998
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Jackson Sentinel, Jan. 21, 1998
Jackson Sentinel, January 21, 1998

OBITUARIES-

Craig Donald Chase

Craig Donald “Rocky” Chase, 42, of Oxford Junction, died Friday January 16, 
1998, at his home in Oxford Junction. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 
a.m., Tuesday, January 20 at the Carson & Son Funeral Home in Maquoketa, with 
Rev. Clair O’Dell of the First United Methodist Church in Maquoketa 
officiating. Burial will be in the Pence Cemetery, rural Baldwin, Iowa.
Visitation will be held from 5 to 8 p.m., Monday January 19, at the funeral 
home. Mr. Chase was born June 20, 1955 at Maquoketa to Ira Edward Chase and 
Carolyn Clark Chase. He married Lori Watson in Kentucky. He worked as a master 
carpenter, with his brother, Gene, in a carpentry business, and loved fishing, 
boating and rafting/tubing.
He is survived by one daughter, Mesheria Chase of Manchester, one son, Nathan 
Chase of Manchester, his mother, Carolyn Chase of Baldwin, two brothers, Gene 
(and Janet) Chase, and Everett (and Kathryn) Chase, both of Oxford Junction, 
two sisters, Janice Axton of Baldwin, and Linda Arnold of Maquoketa, and 
several nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his father and one 
brother. A memorial fund has been established.

Jackson Sentinel, January 28, 1998

Son Charged in Slaying.

An 18 year old Oxford Junction youth has been arrested in connection with the 
shooting death of his father earlier this month in Oxford Junction. Jones 
County authorities said Nathan Blake Watson, 18, was arrested Friday afternoon, 
January 23, in Manchester and charged with first degree murder in connection 
with the January 16 shooting of his father, Craig “Rocky” Chase, 42, of Oxford 
Junction. Chase’s body was found in the school bus in which he lived during the 
earl morning hours of Friday January 16, following a 911 call received by the 
Jones County Sheriff’s Department reporting a shooting.
Watson, who turned 18  the day after the shooting, apparently was living in the 
school bus with his father at the time of the shooting, a sheriff’s spokesman 
said. His mother lives in Manchester, where he was arrested. Watson made a 
preliminary appearance in Jones County District Court on Monday, January 26, 
and was being held in the Jones County Detention Center in Anamosa in lieu of 
$1 million bond pending his next court appearance, scheduled for Wednesday, 
January 28. No further information about the details of the incident were being 
made available by the sheriff’s department or the Iowa Department of Criminal 
Investigation, which is assisting with the case.


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