31-Jul-59
Services for DR. HERBERT SHIRLEY WATSON were held Friday morning, July 31st, at National Funeral Home in Memphis with Rev. Harold Wilson, pastor of the Earle Methodist Church officiating. He was 67.
Dr. Watson, veteran and Captain of World War I, died Wednesday, July 29th at Kennedy Hospital. He had been ill for several months. He was born in Choctaw County, Miss., where he spent his early childhood. He chose the field of medicine for his career and graduated from the University of Tennessee School of Medicine and did intern work at the Baptist Hospital at Memphis.
He came to Earle in 1916 and opened his office in the rear of the old Crittenden Drug Store, which was owned and operated by Charley Phelps and his brother, the late Wrenn Phelps, Sr. Some years later he became associated with the late Dr. W. P. Hicks of Earle and they opened a clinic and hospital in the Enterprise building.
Dr. Watson was a skilled surgeon and physician and the late Dr. Eugene Johnson a prominent surgeon of Memphis said of him, "he was one of the most promising young surgeons of the South." After 30 years of practicing medicine he retired to farming and cotton gin interests in which he was engaged at the time of his death.
Dr. Watson was a member of the Arkansas Medical Society, the Crittenden County Medical Society and the Association of American Railway Surgeons. He was also a 32nd degree Mason, and a member of the Baptist Church. He leaves his wife, Mrs. Mamie Girdner Watson, and two sons, Herbert and George of Earle; his mother, Mrs. G. W. Watson of Weir, Miss.; two brothers, A. B. Watson, of Weir, and B. K. Watson of Marion, La., and a sister, Mrs. T. T. Hinson of Weir.
Pallbearers were, Hassell McCain, Bob Harris, Percy Magness, Lewis Walker, Tommy Thomason, Joe Wilson, Reg Wallin and Bill Hodge. [Note: Burial in Crittenden Memorial Park, Section 2]
Services for DR. HERBERT SHIRLEY WATSON were held Friday morning, July 31st, at National Funeral Home in Memphis with Rev. Harold Wilson, pastor of the Earle Methodist Church officiating. He was 67.
Dr. Watson, veteran and Captain of World War I, died Wednesday, July 29th at Kennedy Hospital. He had been ill for several months. He was born in Choctaw County, Miss., where he spent his early childhood. He chose the field of medicine for his career and graduated from the University of Tennessee School of Medicine and did intern work at the Baptist Hospital at Memphis.
He came to Earle in 1916 and opened his office in the rear of the old Crittenden Drug Store, which was owned and operated by Charley Phelps and his brother, the late Wrenn Phelps, Sr. Some years later he became associated with the late Dr. W. P. Hicks of Earle and they opened a clinic and hospital in the Enterprise building.
Dr. Watson was a skilled surgeon and physician and the late Dr. Eugene Johnson a prominent surgeon of Memphis said of him, "he was one of the most promising young surgeons of the South." After 30 years of practicing medicine he retired to farming and cotton gin interests in which he was engaged at the time of his death.
Dr. Watson was a member of the Arkansas Medical Society, the Crittenden County Medical Society and the Association of American Railway Surgeons. He was also a 32nd degree Mason, and a member of the Baptist Church. He leaves his wife, Mrs. Mamie Girdner Watson, and two sons, Herbert and George of Earle; his mother, Mrs. G. W. Watson of Weir, Miss.; two brothers, A. B. Watson, of Weir, and B. K. Watson of Marion, La., and a sister, Mrs. T. T. Hinson of Weir.
Pallbearers were, Hassell McCain, Bob Harris, Percy Magness, Lewis Walker, Tommy Thomason, Joe Wilson, Reg Wallin and Bill Hodge. [Note: Burial in Crittenden Memorial Park, Section 2]
31-Jul-59
Services for DR. HERBERT SHIRLEY WATSON were held Friday morning, July 31st, at National Funeral Home in Memphis with Rev. Harold Wilson, pastor of the Earle Methodist Church officiating. He was 67.
Dr. Watson, veteran and Captain of World War I, died Wednesday, July 29th at Kennedy Hospital. He had been ill for several months. He was born in Choctaw County, Miss., where he spent his early childhood. He chose the field of medicine for his career and graduated from the University of Tennessee School of Medicine and did intern work at the Baptist Hospital at Memphis.
He came to Earle in 1916 and opened his office in the rear of the old Crittenden Drug Store, which was owned and operated by Charley Phelps and his brother, the late Wrenn Phelps, Sr. Some years later he became associated with the late Dr. W. P. Hicks of Earle and they opened a clinic and hospital in the Enterprise building.
Dr. Watson was a skilled surgeon and physician and the late Dr. Eugene Johnson a prominent surgeon of Memphis said of him, "he was one of the most promising young surgeons of the South." After 30 years of practicing medicine he retired to farming and cotton gin interests in which he was engaged at the time of his death.
Dr. Watson was a member of the Arkansas Medical Society, the Crittenden County Medical Society and the Association of American Railway Surgeons. He was also a 32nd degree Mason, and a member of the Baptist Church. He leaves his wife, Mrs. Mamie Girdner Watson, and two sons, Herbert and George of Earle; his mother, Mrs. G. W. Watson of Weir, Miss.; two brothers, A. B. Watson, of Weir, and B. K. Watson of Marion, La., and a sister, Mrs. T. T. Hinson of Weir.
Pallbearers were, Hassell McCain, Bob Harris, Percy Magness, Lewis Walker, Tommy Thomason, Joe Wilson, Reg Wallin and Bill Hodge. [Note: Burial in Crittenden Memorial Park, Section 2]
Services for DR. HERBERT SHIRLEY WATSON were held Friday morning, July 31st, at National Funeral Home in Memphis with Rev. Harold Wilson, pastor of the Earle Methodist Church officiating. He was 67.
Dr. Watson, veteran and Captain of World War I, died Wednesday, July 29th at Kennedy Hospital. He had been ill for several months. He was born in Choctaw County, Miss., where he spent his early childhood. He chose the field of medicine for his career and graduated from the University of Tennessee School of Medicine and did intern work at the Baptist Hospital at Memphis.
He came to Earle in 1916 and opened his office in the rear of the old Crittenden Drug Store, which was owned and operated by Charley Phelps and his brother, the late Wrenn Phelps, Sr. Some years later he became associated with the late Dr. W. P. Hicks of Earle and they opened a clinic and hospital in the Enterprise building.
Dr. Watson was a skilled surgeon and physician and the late Dr. Eugene Johnson a prominent surgeon of Memphis said of him, "he was one of the most promising young surgeons of the South." After 30 years of practicing medicine he retired to farming and cotton gin interests in which he was engaged at the time of his death.
Dr. Watson was a member of the Arkansas Medical Society, the Crittenden County Medical Society and the Association of American Railway Surgeons. He was also a 32nd degree Mason, and a member of the Baptist Church. He leaves his wife, Mrs. Mamie Girdner Watson, and two sons, Herbert and George of Earle; his mother, Mrs. G. W. Watson of Weir, Miss.; two brothers, A. B. Watson, of Weir, and B. K. Watson of Marion, La., and a sister, Mrs. T. T. Hinson of Weir.
Pallbearers were, Hassell McCain, Bob Harris, Percy Magness, Lewis Walker, Tommy Thomason, Joe Wilson, Reg Wallin and Bill Hodge. [Note: Burial in Crittenden Memorial Park, Section 2]
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