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Bennett Cushman Watson - Madison Parish, Louisiana 

From Vicksburg Post, October 9, 2010

NEWELLTON, La. — Funeral services for Bennett Cushman Watson, age 90, of Tallulah will be 
held Monday at 11 a.m. in the chapel of Crothers-Glenwood Funeral Home in Tallulah with the 
Rev. Larry Foster officiating. Burial will follow at Legion Cemetery in Newellton.

Visitation will be one hour before the service at the funeral home.

Mr. Watson died Friday, Oct. 8, 2010 at the Olive Branch Senior Care Center in Tallulah 
after a brief illness.

He was born in Baker, La., and had lived in Tallulah for a year. He was a retired commercial 
refrigeration owner. He was a member of Jefferson Memorial United Methodist Church in Baton Rouge.

Survivors include two sons, Ben Watson and wife Bobbye of Flower Mound, Texas, and Chester 
Watson and wife Shirley of Fort Collins, Colo.; four grandchildren, Glenn, Gary, Cinamon and 
Clay Watson; nine great-grandchildren, Savannah, Avery, Blake, Molly, Sean, Owen, Collin, 
Rainey and Caroline Watson; one sister, Helen Chamlee of Tulsa, Okla.; one brother-in-law, 
Bobby Joe Lee and wife Bobbye Ann of Tallulah; two sisters-in-law, Tommie Jean Leake and 
husband Sam of Newellton and Sheryl Gaye Kifer and husband Dan of Carthage, Texas; and 
numerous nieces and nephews.