IN LOVING MEMORY OF

Frances Lorraine

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"Renkie" Watson

Jun 20, 1920 — Aug 1, 2009

Obituary

Age 89, Lawton - Funeral services will be 3:00 p.m. Tuesday in the Becker Funeral Home Memorial Chapel with Rev. Steve Mallow officiating. Mrs. Watson died Saturday in a local care center. Burial will be in the Highland Cemetery. She was born June 20, 1920 in Geronimo, Oklahoma, to Lee and Sophia Sanmann Baughman. She grew up in Geronimo and attended school there through the eleventh grade. She graduated from Cameron High School in 1935 and attended Cameron College for one year. She was a long-time member of the First Baptist Church of Geronimo and taught Sunday school classes for more than forty years. She moved her church membership to the First Baptist Church of Lawton in 1989 and was a member of the Four Square Sunday School Class and served as class secretary and treasurer for a number of years. She served as a facilitator for the Beverly Lewis Bible Study Group of the WMU. She married Charles F. Watson on August 16, 1940 at Anadarko, Oklahoma. He preceded her in death on February 19, 1975. She retired from Civil Service at Fort Sill as a Supply Systems Analyst in 1972 with 30 years of service. Following her retirement she was involved in various volunteer activities. She was a past member and past president of the Lawton Business and Professional Women. She is a member of the Great Plains Chapter of the National Association of Retired Federal Employees and served two terms as president. She was a volunteer income tax consultant for the elderly and also delivered mobile meals as well as an RSVP volunteer at the Comanche County Southside Nutrition Center. She is survived by a daughter and son in law, Linda and Gary Rodvelt, Makanda, Illinois; three grandchildren and their spouses, Danny and Jennifer Marburger, Alabama, Patrick and Tiarra Rodvelt, Illinois, and Debbie and Tom Teter, Kansas City; two great grandchildren, Anson and Avery Teter; two brothers and a sister in law, Lynn Baughman, Lawton, and Merle and Barbara Baughman, Sterling; four sisters and a brother in law, Janette and Bill Malone, Lawton, Sophia Porter, Meers, Patricia "Trixie" Murphy, Lawton, and Alcie Baughman, McComb, Mississippi; numerous nieces and nephews. Her parents, four brothers, Fred, Marvin, Woodrow and Rex Baughman, and three sisters, Becky Mallow, Martha Payne and Mary Ellen Baughman, preceded her in death. Memorial contributions may be made to Hospice of Southwest Oklahoma, P.O. Box 2074, Lawton OK 73502.

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