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DATE: MONDAY, October 18, 1993                   TAG: 9310180195
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C-2   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: MONETA                                LENGTH: Short

OBIT WATSON, HORACE ABRAHAM

WATSON, Horace Abraham, 82, of Moneta, passed away Sunday, October 17, 1993 in the Lewis-Gale Hospital, Salem. He was born December 22, 1910 in Bedford County, a son of the late John Daniel Watson and Mattie Anderson Watson. He was retired teacher for 43 years in Bedford, Franklin and Pittsylvania County School Systems. He was a member of the Morgans Baptist Church. He was preceded in death by a sister, Eliza W. Dinwiddie and a brother, Gilbert O. Watson. He is survived by his wife, Edith Saunders Watson; one son, John G. Watson, Glade Hill; three daughters, Mattie W. Gulick, Casanova, LaWanna W. Holman, Lynchburg and Elizabeth A. Watson, Roanoke; three brothers, J. Hanford Watson, William D. Watson, both of Moneta, and R. Anderson Watson, Bedford; a sister, Lelia W. Dudley, Moneta; eight grandchildren. Funeral services will be conducted Tuesday, October 19, 1993 at 2 p.m. at the Morgans Baptist Church by the Rev. Tommy Speight and the Rev. Tommy Duncan. Interment will follow in the church cemetery. The family will receive friends today from 7 to 9 p.m. at Updike Funeral Home, Bedford, and request that those wishing to make memorials consider the Morgans Baptist Church. 


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