Southampton-Dinwiddie County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Watkins, Benjamin T., 1968 

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BENJAMIN THOMAS WATKINS

   COURTLAND - A funeral service for Benjamin Thomas Watkins was conducted 
Saturday at 11 a.m. in W.J.M. Holland & Sons Funeral Home, Franklin by the 
Rev. Bryan Halstead of Colonial Heights Methodist Church.  Burial was in 
Poplar Spring Cemetery, Franklin.

   Pallbearers were Maxwell Watkins, Winfred Watkins, James Potts, Benjamin 
Potts, Maxwell Newton and Leslie Powell.

   Watkins, 70, retired educator and businessman, died Wednesday night in his 
home after a heart attack.

   He was retired superintendent of Southampton schools and former principal 
of Capron and Franklin high schools.

   A native of Dinwiddie County, he was the husband of Mrs. Gustava Powell 
Watkins and a son of Henry W. and Mrs. Frances Scott Watkins.

   He was a graduate of Randolph Macon College and the University of Virginia. 
He was a member of Courtland Methodist Church and its Men’s Club, and 
Courtland Ruritan Club, a former Rotarian, and a member of National and 
Virginia Teachers associations.

   He was consultant for Brunswick Academy and manager of Southampton Finance 
Co.  He was an Army veteran of World War I.

   Besides his widow, surviving are a son, B.T. Watkins, Jr. of Honolulu; a 
brother, Garland W. Watkins of Dinwiddie County; four sisters, Mrs. R.P. 
Newton of Petersburg, and Mrs. Adelaide Ford, Mrs. Wilson Ford, and Mrs. 
Stanley Potts of Dinwiddie County; and five grandchildren.


Benjamin Thomas WATKINS (Sr.), retired educator & businessman, 
Army veteran of WW-I, 
Dinwiddie Co. native, d. 24 Jan 1968, at home, age 70, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Annex 2, Plot 64A*), Franklin, 
   27 Jan 1968, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Jan. 29, 1968, p. 12 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
    Poplar Spring list: 
 http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/psanx2.txt 


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