Robert Lee Watson
1924 - 2012 (88 years)
Generation: 1
1. Robert Lee Watson was born on 22 Jul 1924 in Pettigrew, Madison County, Arkansas; died on 12 Dec 2012 in Carson, Skamania County, Washington; was cremated in Kalama IOOF Cemetery, Kalama, Cowlitz County, Washington. Other Events:
- Census: 1950, Kalama, Cowlitz County, Washington
Notes:
Mother Takes Life of Child
Poisons Four Others and Slashes Throat
Clinton, May 30 (AP) – Six-year-old Jerry Watson died of poisoning in a hospital here today and Sheriff Everett Stambaugh declared the boy’s mother, Mrs. Ida Watson, 34, had given him and her four other children poison capsules and then slashed her throat with a butcher knife.
Jerry Watson died shortly after he was carried to the hospital. The other four, Marie, 16; Bobbie, 14; David, 12, and Joe, 9, were reported improving after emergency treatment.
The mother was reported recovering from a deep wound in her throat.
Stambaugh said the eldest, Marie, told him she became suspicious when her mother called them into the house and made them take two capsules apiece, saying it was “quinine for malaria.”
Jerry was stricken ill quickly and Marie picked him up and ran for the hospital seven blocks away, the other children following here. They all collapsed as Marie was pouring out her story to a staff physician.
“Mrs. Watson was found bleeding and incoherent in the tourist cabin where the family was living,” Stambaugh continued. “She was persuaded to lay down her knife and be taken to a hospital.”
The sheriff said he found an unsigned, unaddressed not in the cabin which said, “you have your good time. I will take the children with me.”
Police Chief J.R. Greer quoted the father of the family, Duke Watson, unemployed oil worker, as saying he knew of no reason for his wife’s act.
Watson left the family shortly after noon to attend a baseball game with an old friend.
Stambaugh said he would turn the case over to the county attorney tomorrow.
Shawnee News-Star, Shawnee, Oklahoma. Wednesday, 31 May 1949, page 1.
Obituary of Robert Lee Watson
Robert L. Watson, age 88, died at his home in Carson, WA on 12/12/12 of pulmonary fibrosis. He is survived by Willavere, his wife of 61 years (pictured left), son Vincent, daughter Kristine, granddaughter Rea (pictured right), age 11 and grandson Ethan, age 7. He will be greatly missed by many in-laws, nephews and nieces who remember their “Uncle bob” with great affection. Bob was born July 22, 1924 in Pettigrew Arkansas to Duke and Ida Watson. Raised in Cushing, Oklahoma he moved to California at age 16 then to the Pacific Northwest in the late 1940’s. He married Willie McKinney of Kalama, Washington in 1951. A member of the International Union of Operating Engineers since 1951, Bob worked on numerous dams throughout Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Alaska and Venezuela as a batch plant operator, then supervisor. He also worked on an airfield in Greenland and sections of the I5 corridor in Washington State. In the late 1970’s he worked on the Alaskan Pipeline. He retired in 1986. An avid outdoorsman, Bob enjoyed fishing the Columbia for salmon and sturgeon, hunting elk, deer and moose, digging razor clams on the Washington coast and picking berries. He also had an interest in gold panning and mining, bowling and golf. Always with a book in hand, he was a voracious reader from early childhood until his last days. Bob’s ashes will be interred in the Kalama Cemetery, followed by a family memorial service at the Fellowship Hall of the Kalama Church of the Nazarene on January 5, 2013.
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https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/181756529/robert-lee-watsonRobert married Patricia Jean Hobbs on 7 Jun 1946 in Kalama, Cowlitz County, Washington, and was divorced about 1950. Patricia was born on 9 Nov 1927 in Washington; died on 14 Aug 2006 in Refugio, Refugio County, Texas; was buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Refugio, Refugio County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]