Donald Emerson Watson, 96, drew his last breath this side of heaven on Friday morning, September 20, 2024.
Don was born in Seward, Nebraska on May 28, 1928, the eldest of five children of Emmerson Ethel Watson and Dorothy Elizabeth (Mann) Watson. He grew up in various towns around Nebraska, following his father's jobs as an itinerant farmer. He graduated from York High School in 1946. After high school graduation, he attended York College in York, Nebraska, where he met and married Maude Ruth Esther Polson on August 28, 1949.
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