Person:Michael Watkins (4)

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Michael Garnett “Watty” WATKINS
b.25 Aug 1890 Cincinnati, Ohio
d.19 Apr 1954 Twentynine Palms, San Bernardino Co, California
Parents and Siblings
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m. 1889
  1. Michael Garnett “Watty” WATKINS1890 - 1954
  2. Edwin Shore WATKINS1898 - 1926
  3. Charles Stuart WATKINS1904 - 1980
  4. Wilfred Hemler “Bill” WATKINS, Jr.1908 - 1995
Spouse and Children
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m. 3 Aug 1913
  1. Garnett Edwin WATKINS1916 - 1918
  2. Naomi Carolyn WATKINS1921 - 1985
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Facts and Events
Name[1] Michael Garnett “Watty” WATKINS
Gender Male
Birth[2] 25 Aug 1890 Cincinnati, Ohio
Marriage 3 Aug 1913 St. Joseph, Berrien Co, Michiganto Carolyn Anne “Carrie” ALSFASSER
Education? Grade/high School In Chicago and Jennings, Louisiana. Northwestern Univ-Chemistry
Occupation? Movie Producer (20s); Real Estate Developer (30s-50s)
Death[2][3][7] 19 Apr 1954 Twentynine Palms, San Bernardino Co, California
Burial[4][8] 22 Apr 1954 Twentynine Palms, California
Cause of Death[3] Cerebro-Vascular Accident (Gross); Arteriosclerosis

Abstracted from Watty’s obituary:

Watty attended grade and high school in Chicago, and Jennings, Louisiana. He earned a PhC degree in chemistry at Northwestern University, but gave it up to do newspaper work in Chicago. This was followed as assistant advertising manager for Billboard in Cincinnati. He later worked as a motion picture producer and distributor in Chicago and New York, putting on tabloid musical comedies.

He served as an ambulance driver for either the Red Cross or American Field Service in France in World War I. He was sent to Bucharest, Romania to deliver supplies. It took three weeks to make a three day trip, because of heavy fighting in Hungary. While waiting to be returned to Paris, he was put in charge of the railroad system in Bucharest, supplying the Romanian army at the Bolshevik front. He was mustered out of the Red Cross on 8 Oct 1919 in New York City.

Injuries he received in France required him to be hospitalized at Crocker Street Hospital in Los Angeles. He studied engineering while confined and he worked in Alhambra until 1925. Then for two years he published the Monterey Park Tribune. He became associated with Ole Hanson in development work in San Clemente for four years.

With the start of the Los Angeles aqueduct work in 1931, he published the Eastern San Bernardino County Herald at Vidal for four and a half years. During the winter of 1936/37 he came to Twentynine Palms to enter the real estate business.

While in 29 Palms, he was president of the Chamber of Commerce, charter member of the Lions Club, as well as its president and program chairman. He was also leader of the realty board. He was a member of the Masonic Lodge, and was a Shriner. At the time of his death, he was president of the Baseline Highway Association.

[end of obituary]

He had distant marriage with Carolyn. They lived apart very often.

Watty is Michael Walter's namesake (along with Walter BERG).

Employer, 1917: American Standard Motion Picture Company.,

References
  1. ↑ Source (248).
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Source (11).
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Source (313).
  4. ↑ Source (53).
  5.   Source (249).
  6.   Source (175).
  7. ↑ 7:30 pm
  8. ↑ Sect 2, Lot 9, Grave 3
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