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                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, March 3, 1993                   TAG: 9303030378
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C-2   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: NATURAL BRIDGE STATION                                LENGTH: Short

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OBIT WATKINS, ESTHER KAYE BLACKBURN

Watkins, Esther Kaye Blackburn, 47, of Natural Bridge Station, died Monday, March 1, 1993. Mrs. Watkins was born September 1, 1945, in Rockbridge Co., a daughter of William Henry Blackburn of Natural Bridge Station, and the late Pauline Smith Blackburn. She was a member of the Natural Bridge Pentecostal Holiness Church and was the widow of Harlon Reed Watkins. In addition to her father, she is survived by a daughter, Charlotte M. Watkins; and a son, William John Adam Watkins, both of Natural Bridge Station; a sister, Nancy B. Landes, Glasgow, Va. Funeral services will be conducted Thursday, March 4, 1993, at 11 a.m. at the Natural Bridge Pentecostal Holiness Church with Rev. Barry L. Nall, Rev. W. David Bain, and Rev. Conald W. Fogus officiating with burial to follow in the Glasgow Cemetery. The family will receive friends after 3 p.m. Wednesday at their residence. Arrangements by the Harrison Funeral Home, Lexington.

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