Tarrant County - Obituaries - Effie Mae Casstevens Watson

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Mansfield News Mirror
November 11, 1965


Funeral services were held at 2:30 p.m., Wednesday in
the Mansfield Methodist Church for Mrs. Effie Mae
Watson, 81.  She died Monday morning in Cedars
Hospital after being injured in a traffic collision
here Sunday at noon.

Officiating for final rites were Rev. J. H. Raines,
pastor of the Mansfield Methodist Church, and Rev. D.
r. McCauley.  Burial was in Mansfield Cemetery under
the direction of Blessing-McInnis Funeral Home.

Mrs. Watson was injured when an automobile in which
she was a passenger was in a collision with another
auto at the intersection of Oak and Main Streets.

Also injured was her sister, Mrs. Stella Blissard, 65,
driver of one of the cars, Mrs. Sallie Blissard, 65,
of San Diego, Calif., and Jimmy Glen Wammack, 20,
driver of the other car.  The three women all were in
the same car

All the injured have since been released from the
hospital.

The accident occurred as the three women were
returning home from services at the Methodist Church. 
The car Mrs. Blissard was driving was moving east on
Oak Street and the Wammack auto was traveling north on
Main Street.

Investigating the accident were Chief of Police Earl
Andrews and officer, Paul C. DeVault.  The Wammack
youth was given a ticket for negligent collision,
police reports show.

Mrs. Watson was born in Johnson County on August 17,
1884, the daughter of George Washington and Orlena
Laura Ellen Guest Casstevens.

On November 15, 1903, she and John A. Watson were
married.  Mr. Watson died April 23, 1926.  Mrs. Watson
was a member of the Mansfield Methodist Church where
she had served for many years as a member of the Board
of Stewards.  She was a member of Mansfield Lodge 876
of the Eastern Star.

Surviving are five sisters, Mrs. Lula Morgan of Fort
Worth; Mrs. Carl Hunt, Mrs. Roy Tipps, Mrs. Stella
Blissard, all of Mansfield, and Mrs. Alta Lawing of
Fort Worth; two brothers, Alvy Burton Casstevens of
Mansfield and John Estelle Casstevens of Fort Worth;
and a number of nieces and nephews.

Pallbearers were Emmett Robertson, Arthur Curry, B. T.
Morgan, Guy Stewart, Bill Lamb, Bob Boren, Wilfred
Brinkley, and Willie Pigg.