Funeral services for Floy Watson, 81, were held Wednesday afternoon at 1 p.m. in the First Baptist Church with church pastor, Rev. Sam Simmons, officiating.
Watson died Monday, January 16, about 2 p.m. in Stephen's Memorial Hospital, Breckenridge, following a lengthy illness. He was active in the Dickens Farm Bureau for many years and also had farming interests. He is a former Sunday School teacher; member of the school board and secretary of Co-op Fuel Association. He was a member of the Baptist Church.
Born in Leon County on March 27, 1902, he came to Dickens County in 1916. He married Ouida Caviness in Spur in 1928. He later married John Belle Gibson in Spur on March 20, 1954. She died in 1978.
Survivors include two sons, Dewey, Breckenridge; and Charles, Longview; two step-sons, Dick Gibson, Lubbock and Ralph Gibson, Amarillo; one daughter, Zella McKinney, Abilene and one stepdaughter, Robbie Isom, Lubbock; a brother, Arner, Spur; two sisters, Callie Mae Reese, Spur; and Lillian Boland, Jayton; 12 grandchildren and 6 great grandchildren.
Burial was in the Spur Cemetery with Campbell Funeral Home in charge.
©The Texas Spur, January 19, 1984
from the records of Lillian Grace Nay
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