Name |
Truman Garland WATKINS |
Birth |
1 May 1906 |
Dade County, Missouri, United States [1, 2, 3] |
Gender |
Male |
Residence |
28 Apr 1910 |
Mountain Grove Township, Wright, Missouri, United States [2] |
Residence |
8 Jan 1920 |
Polk Township, Atchison, Missouri, United States [4] |
Attended School |
Residence |
17 Apr 1930 |
Center Township, Sioux, Iowa, United States [5] |
Hired farm hand |
Drft |
16 Oct 1940 |
Hawarden, Sioux, Iowa, United States [6] |
Death |
23 Jun 1995 |
Hawarden, Sioux, Iowa, United States [1, 3] |
Address: Hass Hillcrest Care |
- Truman G. Watkins. 89, of Hawarden died Friday, June 23, 1995, at the Hass Hillcrest Care Center in Hawarden. Services were held Tuesday, June 27, at the United Methodist Church in Hawarden with the Rev. Dean Shelly officiating. Burial was in Grace Hill Cemetery, under direction of Porter-Dow Funeral Home In Hawarden.
Mr. Watkins was born May 1, 1906, in Dade County, Mo. He attended school in Hamburg, Iowa, and moved to Sioux City in 1936. He married Esther Klave June 14, 1940 in Sioux City. She died April 28, 1992. The couple lived in Hawarden, where Mr. Watkins worked for various businesses, Including the Hawarden Gravel Company and Cy Younkins Body Shop. He also worked as a night clerk and entertainer at the Gladstone Hotel. He was employed with John Deere Implement, and was also a bookkeeper at Don's Ready Mix for 10 years before going into private bookkeeping. Mr. Watkins was a lifelong musician, and was well known for playing the fiddle, for which he received many rewards. Mr. Watkins was a member of the United Methodist Church, Fraternal Order of Eagles, Siouxland County Music Association, South Dakota Old Time Fiddlers, Missouri State Old Time Fiddlers. National Old Time Fiddlers. Mid America Old Time Fiddlers Hall of Fame, and the National Arbor Day Foundation.
Survivors include two sons and their wives, Larry and Janice, and Doug and Jeri, all of. Sioux City; a daughter, and her husband, Mary and Jim Kindig of Sioux Falls, S.D.; a sister, Laura Hurst of Sidney, Iowa; and 11 grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by 10 brothers and two sisters.
Akron Register-Tribune 6/29/1995
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Burial |
Hawarden, Sioux, Iowa, United States [3] |
Address: Grace Hill Cemetery |
Person ID |
I9029 |
Watkins |
Last Modified |
17 Feb 2023 |
Father |
Cyrus Zell WATKINS, b. 17 Jan 1875, Fairbury, Jefferson, Nebraska, United States d. 16 Dec 1933, Corning, Nemaha, Kansas, United States (Age 58 years) |
Mother |
Cora Grace COOPER, b. 3 Sep 1884, Jerico Springs, Cedar, Missouri, United States d. 24 Aug 1959, Sabetha, Nemaha, Kansas, United States (Age 74 years) |
Marriage |
4 May 1904 |
Jerico Springs, Cedar, Missouri, United States [1, 7] |
Residence |
28 Apr 1910 |
Mountain Grove Township, Wright, Missouri, United States [2] |
Farmer |
- Census recorded that this was his second marriage and her first. Of the four children born to them, three were still living.
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Residence |
8 Jan 1920 |
Linden, Atchison, Missouri, United States [4] |
- Listed as C.Z. and Grace Watkins
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Residence |
14 Apr 1930 |
Polk Township, Atchison, Missouri, United States [8] |
Farmer |
Family ID |
F1975 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Family |
Esther Marlis KLAVE, b. 23 May 1912, Hawarden, Sioux, Iowa, United States d. 28 Apr 1992, Hawarden, Sioux, Iowa, United States (Age 79 years) |
Marriage |
14 Jun 1940 |
Sioux City, Woodbury, Iowa, United States [3] |
Residence |
3 Apr 1950 |
Hawarden, Sioux, Iowa, United States [9] |
Bookeeper at a garage |
Address: 17th Street |
Children |
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Family ID |
F4535 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Last Modified |
10 Oct 2023 |