Miami County OhArchives Obituaries.....Watkins, Roger E March 18, 2010
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Piqua Daily Call dated  19-Mar-2010
SIDNEY - Roger E. Watkins, 98, of Dorothy Love Retirement Community, Sidney, 
passed away at 5:20 a.m. on Thursday, March 18, 2010, in Wilson Memorial 
Hospital, Sidney.
Roger was born on Dec. 26, 1911, in Champaign County, a son of the late Elmer 
and Jenny (Worthington) Watkins. He married Eileen Campbell on Dec. 23, 1933 
and she survives in Sidney.
Roger was preceded in death by his parents; two sisters, Helen Mahan and 
Blanche Verdier Allen; and a brother, Robert Watkins.
He also is survived by three daughters, Joyce (Richard) Peters of Sidney, 
Janice (Bill) Maxson of Conover and Irma (Allan) Greenwood of Colorado 
Springs, Colo.; 11 grandchildren; 27 great-grandchildren; and two great-great-
grandchildren.
Roger was a 1929 graduate of Rosewood High School, a farmer all of his life, 
and a member of the GreenView United Church of Christ, Sidney, where he served 
as a moderator of the Southwest Association of the UCC and the Ohio Conference.
He was a lifetime member of the Grange, where he was a former deputy of the 
Shelby County Granges.
He also was a past president of the Shelby County Farm Bureau and sang with 
the barbershop quartet, The Clodhoppers.
Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday, in the GreenView United Church of 
Christ, 3041 Leatherwood Creek Road, Sidney, with Pastor Darren Harvey 
presiding. Burial will follow in Fletcher Cemetery, Fletcher

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