
                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: THURSDAY, March 19, 1992                   TAG: 9203190117
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-2   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: LYNCHBURG                                LENGTH: Short

ROBERT WATTS DIES; WAS VA. TREASURER

Former state treasurer Robert Crenshaw Watts Jr., who served under Govs. Mills Godwin and John Dalton, has died. He was 87.

Watts, who retired in 1981, died Sunday.

He practiced law with the Lynchburg firm of Caskie, Frost, Davidson and Watts until 1958, when he joined Peoples National Bank.

He served as president of that bank until it merged with First and Merchants National Bank in 1963, when he became senior vice president of the Lynchburg region.

Godwin appointed the Lynchburg native as state treasurer in 1974. He was reappointed by Dalton in 1978.

Watts is survived by his wife, Dorothy Leininger Watts; two sons, Robert C. Watts III of Pungoteague and Paul Hendrick Sheehy of Richmond; and three daughters, Helen Watts Strauss of Lynchburg, Mary McLaurin Watts of Arlington and Frances Sheehy Powell of Concord, Maine.

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