Obituaries: Edith Watts, 1929, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: January 25, 1929 Winnfield News-American

Edith Watts, Young Business Woman of Winnfield Passes

Deputy Clerk of Court And Active In Business And Religious Circles

Edith Watts, stenographer and Deputy Clerk of Court of Winn Parish who died at
her home here Wednesday afternoon was buried Thursday afternoon at three
o'clock in the Winnfield Cemetery.  Funeral services were conducted by the
Rev. C. C. Wier of the First Methodist Church assisted by Rev. A. H. Cullen of
First Baptist Church, Dr. S. B. Williams of the Presbyterian Church and Rev.
P. M. Caraway of New Orleans, a former pastor of the deceased.

Miss Watts was born April 6, 1907 and was 21 years, 9 months and 17 days old
at the time of her death.  She was educated in the public schools of Winnfiled
and entered the business world at an early age, to which she gave faithful,
loyal service and made an enviable record for one of her age.  For more than
two years she was employed by the Alexandria Flour and Feed Company, a
wholesale business here and when the business was liquidated she became Deputy
Clerk of Court with C. F. Walsworth, Clerk of Court of Winn Parish, which
position she held at the time of her death.

She was a lifelong member of the Methodist Church to which she came as a
cradle roll member and lived and worked her childhood faith.

Other than her church work to which she was devoted she was active in business
circles lending her influence at all time to the upbuilding and progress of
her own home town, parish, and state.

Miss Watts is survived by her mother, Mrs. J. R. Watts, Sr.; four brothers,
J. R. Watts, Jr., and Kenneth Watts, Winnfield, P. R. Watts, Port Arthur,
Tex., A. J. Watts of Camden, Ark., three sisters, Mrs. W. J. Jackson, Ashland,
Mrs. H. R. Rushing, Pharr, Tex., and Miss Velma Lee Watts, Winnfield.

Pallbearers were C. F. Walsworth, C. C. Taylor, Shirley Jackson, Leo Sowers,
Arnett Garriss, Colvin Drewett.

Honorary pallbearers were her Sunday School Class, Willie Verne Hall, Willie
Gaar, Lawson McDonald, Jr., Mabel Joy Allen, Ethel Ray Eagles, E. J.
Orvell, and Mauel Dickerson, Bill Raywinkle, Hazel Rayburn, Clara and
Margaret Gilcrease, Margaret and Floyd Wren, Mary Elizabeth Abel, Katheryn
Neill, Clotile Stewart, Ethie Vernon, Edith CeCleland(?), Jean McLaren, Lula
Daniels, Roy Morgan, Myrtis Allen, Lula DeLoach, and Wilma Howell.