Extracted from The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, TX)
John F. Watson Burial Here Today
BIG SPRING -- Funeral was to be held at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday with graveside rites at Colony Hill Cemetery near Abilene for John F. Watson, 86, retired cowboy who died in a Big Spring hospital Monday morning.
The Rev. R. N. Hardison of Abilene was to officiate. Burial was to be under the direction of Nalley-Pickle Funeral Home.
Born in 1872 at Columbia, Tenn., Mr. Watson moved to Texas in 1879. He had lived in the Big Spring area for the past 35 years.
Survivors include a brother, J. W. Watson of Pecos; and two sisters, Mr. [sic Mrs.] Frank Ingham of Midland and Mrs. V. L. Bradley of Clovis, N. M.
Tuesday, November 4, 1958