Watauga County NcArchives Obituaries.....Watson, Maggie Ellen Clawson April 1946
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Newspaper Obituary
SISTER LENOIR
   MAN INSTANTLY
      KILLED MONDAY

   Boone, April 11, 1946 – Mrs. Albert Watson, 66 years old, member of one of 
the county’s pioneer families, and one of Boone’s most popular ladies, was 
instantly killed at 6:15 Monday afternoon, when struck by a truck driven by 
Mr. E. E. of the Shulls Mills section.
   The accident occurred on the Blowing Rock road, near the home of Mr. and 
Mrs. T. Len Cooke.  Mrs. Watson was returning from a visit with Mrs. Cooke, 
who is ill, and was attempting to cross the street when struck by the 
vehicle.  Severe chest injuries were given as the cause of her demise.
   Deputy Coroner Richard E. Kelly, immediately conducted an inquest, the jury 
terming that accident “unavoidable.:  Evidence given by a Naval officer, a 
resident of the stat of Maine, en route to Florida, and who driving 
immediately behind the truck was to the effect that the vehicle involved in 
the accident was going no more than twenty miles per hour at the time.
   Mrs. Watson was taken immediately to the local hospital, but had expired.
   Funeral services were conducted from the Methodist church at 2 o’clock 
Wednesday afternoon.  Rev. Paul Townsend, former pastor of the church, now of 
Waynesville conducted the rites in the absence of Dr. E. K. McLarty, the 
pastor who was ill in a Winston-Salem hospital.  Interment was in the city 
cemetery.  Reins-Sturdivant Funeral home arranged the details.
   Mrs. Watson was the former Miss Maggie Ellen Clawson, and was born in 
Watauga county, a daughter of Jacob T. and Mary Elizabeth Clawson.  For many 
years she made her home in Boone.  She was a member of the Methodist church, 
and was actively affiliated with the Women’s Society of Christian Service, 
Circle NO. 2 and had been to a meeting of the organization shortly before her 
demise.  She was a potent force in the religious life of the community, and 
had endeared herself to the people of the community by her kindly disposition, 
her generous and neighborly tendencies, and her life of Christian activity.
   The husband, and one son, Lionel Watson, of Boone, survive.  There are six 
brothers and four sisters: J. N. Clawson, Lenoir; Henry A. Clawson, San 
Francisco, Calif.; John E. Clawson, Bel Air, Md.; Hoy Clawson, Fallston, Md.; 
Arlie Clawson, San Diego, Calif.; Mrs. C. C. Ragan, Boone; Mrs. Everett 
Norris, Blowing Rock; Mrs. Calvin Hodges, New Windsor Md.; Mrs. D. M. Smith, 
Fallston, Md. 


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