Nettie Florene Aaron Watkins

Posted Tuesday, 20th December 2005

Graveside services for Nettie Florene Aaron Watkins, 70, of Reilly Springs will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 20, in Reilly Springs Cemetery with Bro. Danny Ballard officiating. Mrs. Watkins grandsons will serve as pallbearers.

Visitation with the family will be held Reilly Springs Community Center after the service.

Mrs. Watkins died at 1:50 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 18, at her residence.

She was born Sept. 30, 1935, in Anna, the daughter of J.P. and Eva Dudley Aaron. She married James Winford "Bodie" Watkins on June 21, 1950, in Rockwall. He survives.

Mrs. Watkins was a homemaker. She was a member of the Full Gospel House of Prayer.

Other survivors include one son and daughter-in-law, Alan Dale and Pam Watkins, of Sulphur Springs; three daughters and two sons-in-law, Barbara Gail Watkins, Evia Marie and Ernest Aaron, and Tina Nora and Larry Ponder, all of Sulphur Springs; six grandchildren, Dale Watkins Jr., Trent Watkins, Valerie Ponder Boles, Eric Klade, James Aaron and Ricky Dale Aaron, all of Sulphur Springs; three great-grandchildren, Landon Watkins, Dakota Watkins and Faith Watkins; four brothers; and seven sisters.

She was preceded in death by her parents and an infant sister, Ruth Geneva Aaron.

Memorials may be made to the Kidney Foundation of Texas at 13500 Midway Road, Suite 101, Dallas, TX 75244-9990.