OBIT: Marie E. (DIEHM) WATSON, 1917, Juniata, Blair County, PA

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MRS. J. G. WATSON.

  Mrs. Marie Eva Watson, wife of Dr. J. G. Watson, of Juniata, died 
suddenly at 2:55 o'clock on Saturday afternoon, in the family home at 
427 Fifth avenue.  Mrs. Watson was a sufferer from valvular heart 
trouble and was confined to her bed for two weeks' previous to her 
death.  Some days ago her condition seemed to be so serious that her 
sons in Wilkinsburg and Norristown were summoned home.  She, however, 
rallied so encouragingly that the visitors returned to their work with 
the cheering confidence of her recovery.  They had but little more than 
reached their destinations when tiding of her death again called them 
home.  Mrs. Watson was at noon on Saturday much brighter than at any 
time since her trouble became acute and with her husband talked over 
some plans they had in mind.  At 2:15 the doctor went out to make a 
professional call in the city.  When he returned three-quarters of an 
hour later a friend met him at the car line with reluctant tidings of 
the great grief that had come to his home.  Mrs. Watson had collapsed 
in death without a minute's warning to the daughter at her bedside.
  Mrs. Watson was born in Philadelphia on August 4, 1851, and was a 
daughter of August and Marie Diehm, both deceased.  Her parentage on 
both sides was German and she was a granddaughter of a Lutheran 
clergyman in Germany.  Her girlhood was spent in her native city, where 
she was educated and where in 1875 she became the wife of the young 
physician with whom she walked for more than two score years of perfect 
wedded life.  Born to them were six children, of whom three survive - 
Robert J., with the Westinghouse Electric company in Wilkinsburg; D. W. 
Stuart Watson, of the Charity hospital at Norristown, and Mrs. Louise 
Watson Jones, with her little girl, Marie Louise Jones, the only 
grandchild of the deceased, at home.  Also surviving are two brothers - 
Joseph R. Diehm, of Camden, N.J., and Frederick B. Diehm, of 
Philadelphia.
  The deceased lady was an attendant at the means of grace in the 
Lutheran faith from infancy and for almost her entire life was an 
active member of the church.  During twelve years in Juniata she was 
identified with Trinity Lutheran church in the borough and was esteemed 
by her associates as a sweet Christian woman.  Service over her remains 
will be conducted by Dr. S. I. Taylor, Trinity Lutheran pastor, at 8 
o'clock this evening in the bereaved home.  The funeral cortege will at 
11:30 tomorrow morning leave Altoona for McConnellstown, the former 
home of Dr. and Mrs. Watson, and there interment will be made with 
funeral service at 2 o'clock in the afternoon.

Altoona Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Monday Morning, February 12, 1917

Juniata
Paying Last Tribute.

  Many friends, neighbors and church associates of the late Mrs. J. G. 
Watson were last evening with the immediate relatives in attendance at 
service over her remains last evening in the bereaved home at 427 Fifth 
avenue.  The service was conducted by the Trinity Lutheran pastor, Dr. 
S. J. Taylor, who will also accompany Dr. Watson and his family today 
on their sad mission of interment at McConnellstown.  A number of other 
Juniata people will accompany the funeral cortege, leaving Altoona at 
11:30 this afternoon.

Altoona Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Tuesday Morning, February 13, 1917