Carter Co., OK - OBIT:  George Franklin Watkins

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Brother of Mrs. Fowler Dies in Ardmore Hospital

Funeral services will be held today at 2 p.m. in the Graham Baptist Church 
for George Franklin Watkins, 79, brother of Mrs. Rebecca Fowler of Healdton. 
Mr. Watkins died in an Ardmore hospital Monday after a three-week illness. 
Burial in the Graham cemetery will be under the direction of Collier Brothers.

He was employed by the Rock Island Railroad for several years and by the 
Stark Bros. Nursery, but more recently, he had been engaged in farming near 
El Reno, where he had lived for 30 years. He had been visiting recently in 
the home of his sister, where he suffered a stroke that caused his death.

Surviving are his wife, who is in an El Reno rest home, three sons, Jesse 
and Leonard, Haileyville, and George Jr. of Kiowa, one sister Mrs. Rebecca 
Fowler of Healdton, two brothers Tom of Graham and Cas in Fort Worth and a 
number of stepchildren.

Printed February, 1958 in "The Healdton Herald" in Carter Co., Oklahoma.

Background information: George Franklin "Green" moved with his parents 
Jesse W. and Susan McGehee from Shannon Co., MO to the Red River Valley 
of north Texas about 1882/83, moving to Chickasaw Nation about 1885. There 
was no given name for his widow on the death certificate or in his obit. 
Rev. J. O. Hudson of the Free Will Baptist Church conducted his funeral service.