WATTS, Lora Fulton
Source: The obituary is from a collection of newspaper (paper names not recorded) obituaries saved, by Fauniel Hershberger, during the 1950's, 60's, 70's and 80's. She was a life long resident of Fountain County Indiana. The collection is now housed at Crawfordsville District Public Library. --typed by Walt W
COVINGTON, Ind. (CNS) -- Mrs. Lora Belle Watts, 75, died at 9:50 a.m. today (Nov. 11, 1968) at St. Elizabeth Hospital. She had been a patient there since Nov. 4. Born Oct. 6. 1893, in Indiana, she was the daughter of Isaac and Emma Simmons Fulton. She was married to Mack Watts, who died. The body is at the Bodine & Shelby Funeral Home. Arrangements are incomplete.
COVINGTON, Ind. (CNS) — services for Mrs. Lora Belle Watts, 75, who died yesterday at St. Elizabeth Hospital, will be at 2 p.m. (EST) Wednesday at Bodine and Shelby Funeral Home. The Rev. Edgar Allen will officiate and burial will be in Mt. Hope Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 2 p.m. today. Mrs. Watts, a native of Warren County, was born Oct. 6, 1893, the daughter of Isaac and Emma Siddens Fulton. She was married to Mack Watts Sept. 27, 1917 and he died Nov. 28, 1966. She had been hospitalized since Nov. 4. Surviving are five sons, Chester and Wilbur of Danville, Donald of Covington, James at home and John of Paducah, Ky.; four daughters, Mrs. Wilma Watts of South Bend, Mrs. Ruth Gaylor of Veedersburg Route 1, Mrs. Dorothy Schecter and Mrs. Helen Ohl, both of Covington; 11 grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren and a sister, Mrs. Vera Fulton, a patient at Hedrecka Nursing Home near Rossville, Ill. She was preceded in death by a son, a daughter, three sisters and two brothers.
Source: "Obituaries - Year - 1960 Volume B" from the Covington Public Library. Year 1968
COVINGTON - Mrs. Lora Belle Watts, age 75, of 916 Short St., died at 9:50 a.m. Monday, Nov. 11, at St. Elizabeth Hospital in Danville, Ill., where she had been a patient since Nov. 4.
Mrs. Watts was born Oct 6, 1893 in Warren County, the daughter of Isaac and Emma Siddens Fulton. She was married Sept. 21, 1917 to Mack Watts, who preceded her in death Nov. 28, 1966. She was a life resident at the Covington community.
Surviving Mrs. Watts are: nine children, Chester, whose address is unknown; Wilbur of Danville, Wilma of South Bend, Don of Covington, Mrs; Ruth Gayler of Rt. 1 Veedersburg, James, at home, Mrs. Dorothy Schechter of Covington, John of Paducah, Ky., and Mrs. Helen Ohl of Covington; 11 grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren and one sister, Vera Fulton, patient in the Hedrick in Rossville, Ill.
She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, one son, one daughter, three sisters and two brothers.
Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. today, Nov. 13, at the Bodine & Shelby Funeral Home here. The Rev. Edgar Allen, pastor of the First Assembly of God Church, officiated and burial in in Mt. Hope Cemetery.