Obituary of Emma Watts

EMMA WATTS Emma Watts, age 87, 327 Dixie Manor, died Thursday, January 22, 2004 at the James B. Haggin Memorial Hospital after a long illness. Born January 25, 1916 in Mercer County, she was the daughter of the late Herman and Eyre Emma Devine Watts. She was a retired nurse at James B. Haggin Memorial Hospital where she served as a member of the hospital’s Nurses Fellowship, a member of the Harrodsburg Baptist Church where she served in the WMU, taught the Miss Emma Girls' Sunday School Class for many years, and was on the Board of Directors at Cardinal Meadows. Survivors include two brothers, Roger Watts, Atlanta, GA. and Cecil Watts, Sebring, FL; one sister Mary Frances Watts, Harrodsburg; several nieces and nephews and several great and great-great nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by two brothers, Maurice and V.W. Watts and one sister, Ermany Watts Bingham. Funeral services will be conducted 2:00 pm Sunday, January 25th at the Ransdell Funeral Chapel by Rick Snyder and Eddie Russell. Burial will be in the Spring Hill Cementer. Pallbearers are John Trisler, Bill Barnett, David Baker, Kenneth Kirkland, Charles Ison, and Bill Freeman. Honorary bearers are Dick Dartt, Stephen Bailey, Joe Harlow, Curtis Devine, Ronnie Bailey, and Dr. Charles Hatcher. Visitation will be after 4:00 pm Saturday and after 7:30 am Sunday at the chapel. Memorial contributions are suggested to the Lottie Moon International Foreign Missions, Richmond, Virginia.