Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Watt, Pearl S. (Flint) May 14, 1966 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Nan Wheaton wheaton1624@yahoo.com May 11, 2014, 2:02 pm Ionia Sentinel-Standard – Sat. May 14, 1966 Mrs. Pearl Watt, 82, of 433 Union, wife and mother of former Ionia county prosecuting attorneys and mother of Flint C. Watt, Ionia attorney and president of the Ionia district board of education, died early Saturday morning at Ionia County Memorial Hospital. Mrs. Watt, in ill health for several years, again suffered a bone fracture several weeks ago in a fall and was taken to Ionia hospital where her condition continued to worsen. She had been critically ill for more than a week. Mrs. Watt was born April 18, 1884 at Bad Axe, the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. W. H. Flint. The family moved to Clarksville where Mrs. Watt was graduated from Clarksville high school and later attended Olivet college. She was married March 1, 1905 to J. Clyde Watt in Clarksville and they lived in Saranac until 1918 when they moved to Ionia where Mr. Watt assumed the office of Ionia county prosecuting attorney. He practiced law here until his death July 1, 1937. Mrs. Watt had been a resident of Ionia the past 48 years. She was a member of the Ionia Presbyterian church and a memorial is being established for that church by the Watt family. Funeral services are to be conducted Monday morning at 11 a.m. at the Boynton funeral home. The Rev. Robert McComb, pastor of the Ionia Presbyterian church will officiate. Burial will be in Saranac cemetery. Surviving are a son Flint C. Watt of Ionia, five grandchildren and one great grandchild. Additional Comments: Saranac Cemetery - #4120 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/w/watt24860nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 2.1 Kb