Danville Commercial News March 15, 1963
*Mrs. Ellen Watkins
Mrs. Ellen Watkins, 83, of 1212 N. Walnut St., died at 4:35 p.m. Thursday (March 14, 1963) in Lakeview Memorial Hospital where she had been a patient seven weeks.
She was the mother of Miss Frances Watkins, a Danville High School, and the widow of Charles Watkins, a prominent building and savings and loan executive here for 50 years. He died in 1954.
Mrs. Watkins had been a resident of Danville 68 years and had taught school 13 years at Hooton, Grant and Garfield schools. She was a member of the First Presbyterian Church 45 years and formerly was active in its women's groups.
She was a charter member of Danville Chapter 854, Order of the Eastern Star, the Vermilion County Historical Society, the Auxiliary of Athelstan Commandery 45, the Thirty-Third Wives Assn., and the Danville Chapter, Past Matron & Past Patron Club. She formerly was a member of the Danville Woman's Club and the Roselawn Garden Club.
Born March 23, 1879 in Cardonia, Ind., she was the daughter of the Rev. James and Eliza Osborne Hayes. She was a graduate of Danville High School and attended Eastern Illinois State Teachers College at Charleston. She was married to Charles R. Watkins on Sept. 16, 1903, in Danville, and had resided at the Walnut St. address 39 years.
She was preceded in death by three sisters and two brothers in addition to her husband.
The body is at the Barrick & Son Funeral Home where friends may call from 7-9 tonight.
Funeral services will be at 3:30 p.m. Saturday at Barrick & Son, with the Rev. Calvin DeVries officiating. Burial will be in Spring Hill Cemetery.
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My family lines are (note: the * are in my family tree {I still have many to mark.}) Jones, Pugh, Knowles, Prothero, Painter, Owens, Nash, Albright, Watkins, Hall, Edgerton, Willoughby, Draper, Charinsky, Aikin, Moore, Meers, Morgan, DalValley (DalVallee), Monson, Klaman, Breeden, Dora, Russell, Williamson, Arnold, Chism, Siddell, Weindenburner, Gill, Ames, Wallis, Chantos, Keller, Davis, Wilcox, Cox, Pate, Gruber, Palmer, Sullivan, Douthit, West, Butler, Reese, Balsley, Smallcomb and the list goes on.
Some folks, on this blog, are friends or friends' parents. Others are individuals that are on the same page as one of my family.
I am willing to do research for others, however I do charge for extensive research and for the cost of research items. To check in some of our local cemetery records they do charge. Birth and Death records also cost. Before I do that search I will require a deposit in my paypal account. Please ask ahead if I will be charged to help you. Also all of the articles I have, I have paid to make copies of .
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Blank lines means the individual is still living at the time that I post the article. I try not to publish any names of living individuals. This is not always possible, as some folks may still be alive and I don't know them. Sorry if I have posted a name of someone you know for sure is still living. Contact me and I will make their name a blank line.
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