Extracted from The Odessa American (Odessa, TX)
Tuesday, April 14, 1964

JAMES W. WATSON

PECOS (Staff) -- Final rites for James William Watson, 87, will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday in Pecos Funeral Home Chapel.

Burial will be in Fairview Cemetery.

He died Monday in Odessa Medical Center Hospital.

Watson was a lone-time [sic long-time] Pecos area rancher.

He was born Jan. 5, 1877, in Tennessee.

Watson had moved from Pecos to Odessa in July, 1963, and lived in Deering's Convalescent Center.

Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Betty Cox, Hamilton, and Mrs. Annabelle Jennings, Grass Valley, Calif.; a son, J. W. Watson, Jr., Wallis; two grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren.