Obit of Watson, Sydney "Syd" H  - Johnston County, Oklahoma

Thanks to http://www.amarillo.com/ for permission to upload their
obits to the USGenWeb Archives.
Copyright, http://www.amarillo.com/                    03 Feb 2008       
Return to Johnston County Archives:
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/johnston/johnston.html
=====================================================================
                        USGENWEB NOTICE
                 Copyright.  All rights reserved.
          http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
=====================================================================
::Memorial Park Cemetery--Amarillo TX

Amarillo Globe News 24 Oct 1997
Sydney H. Watson
Sydney "Syd'' H. Watson, 92, of Amarillo, died Wednesday, Oct. 22, 1997.
Graveside services will be at 12:30 p.m. Saturday in Hillcrest Memorial
Park Cemetery at Dallas. Memorial services will be at 1 p.m. in Chapel
East in Hillcrest Memorial Park Cemetery with the Rev. Jim Leggett
officiating. Arrangements are by Schooler Funeral Home Inc., 4100 S.
Georgia St.
Mr. Watson was born in Danville, Ark. He attended Arkansas Tech at
Russellville, Ark., from 1926 to 1929. He graduated from Oklahoma State
University in 1930 and received a master's degree in agronomy in 1931.
He married Marydell Ward in 1931 at Russellville. They moved to
Tishomingo, Okla., where Mr. Watson taught agronomy at Murray State
College until 1935.
In 1936, he joined the Soil Conservation Service at Salina, Kan., where he
was in charge of the range and pasture division. He was transferred to
Amarillo in 1939 and was in charge of regrassing air fields in the Texas
Panhandle, Oklahoma and Kansas, eastern Colorado and New Mexico after the
Dust Bowl.
In 1942, Mr. Watson entered the Army Air Corps to supervise dust control
of various air fields. He was transferred to Randolph Air Field at San
Antonio and, a short time later, was transferred to Dallas with the Army
Engineers as a liaison officer in charge of air field construction.
He retired from the Air Force in 1947 as a colonel and remained in Dallas
as division agronomist for the Corps of Engineers. He retired in 1963.
Mr. Watson moved to Amarillo in 1992. He was a member of First
Presbyterian Church of Amarillo. He had been a member of Preston Hollow
Presbyterian Church in Dallas for many years. He delivered for Meals on
Wheels.
He was preceded in death by his wife in 1993 and a son, John Ward, in
1981.
Survivors include a daughter, DeDe Baum of the home; friend, Art Spikes of
Amarillo; four sisters, Eva Lucas of California, Estelle Wilson and
Johnnie Cohen, both of Little Rock, Ark., and Helen Blanton of Dallas; a
brother, Wilbur Watson of Fayetteville, Ark.; seven grandchildren; and
seven great-grandchildren.
The family requests memorials be to Opportunity School or the Don and
Sybil Harrington Cancer Center, 1500 Wallace Blvd., Amarillo, Texas 79106.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Return to Johnston County Archives:
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/johnston/johnston.html