Extracted from The Delta Democrat-Times (Greenville, MS)
Tuesday, May 15, 1973

Mrs. Bessie Watkins

FOREST -- Funeral services for Mrs. Bessie Leona Watkins, 61, mother of Glynn Watkins of Greenville, were held Sunday at the Zion Baptist Church here. Burial was in Zion Cemetery. Ott and Lee Funeral Home of Forest had charge.

Mrs. Watkins died Saturday at her home at the Lake community near here after a long illness.

Besides her son, she leaves her husband, Grady Watkins of Lake; a daughter, Mrs. Macy Joe Wright of Gainesville, Fla.; two brothers, E. H. Gainey of Walnut Grove and Woodley Gainey of Forest; two sisters, Mrs. Cliff Watkins of Philadelphia and Mrs. Lucille Rickles of Mobile, and seven grandchildren.