Dorothy Watson

 Dorothy Ellen Watson, 92, of Quinton, passed away Friday, April 20, 2018, at Claremore Nursing Home. She was born Aug. 18, 1925, in Gordon, Neb. to Paul and Lydia (Harris) Eichenberger.
Dorothy was confirmed in the Lutheren Church on May 11, 1941, in Gordon, Neb. and she was a child of God until leaving us on Friday, April 20, 2018, to be with her God in His presence. Dorothy and Rollin had attended Oak Ridge Baptist Church before she moved from Enterprise to live with Kendal and Betty in 2008 and attended Spavinaw United Methodist Church with Betty, until moving to Brookfield Assisted Living Center in Claremore in October 2012.
Dorothy was a very organized record keeper. Counting cows and taking notes as she and Rollin checked their cows. She loved to read, work picture puzzles, play cards, travel, and said she and Rollin had probably danced across Texas.
Russell, her brother in Arizona, told us she had pneumonia when she was real little and her mother didn’t think she would survive, and after being so ill, she was frail for several years. He said she would help in the house and her sister would help their dad on the farm outside.
She attended a small one-room school named, White Lodge School, from first to eighth grade. When she started to high school, she and her sisters went into Gordon on Sunday evenings and lived with a family and would do light housekeeping for their room and board. Their dad would take them and pick them up on Fridays, unless the weather was bad and they couldn’t get to town. There were no school busses for the country kids.
When she graduated from high school, she wanted to be a beauty operator, now we say, hairdresser, but soon learned she was allergic to the chemicals in the products. She didn’t get to complete the training.
It was about that time she met Rollin at a small carnival that had come to town and she always said he took care of her from then on.
They were married on Sept. 4, 1944, and he was drafted into the Army in June 1945. He returned from the service and they lived and farmed in Nebraska until 1950 when they moved to Oklahoma.
Dorothy was a devoted mother and mother-in-law with a loving heart. She was a great cook, a cowgirl who wore tennis shoes and was a gracious lady of the greatest generation.  
Dorothy is survived by two sons, Kendal Watson and wife, Betty, of Eucha and Gary Watson and wife, Jo Ann, of Springdale, Ark.; a grandchild, Shelli Hubbs and husband, David; a stepgrandchild, Beverly Stites and husband, Jeff, of Tulsa; two great-grandchildren, Cody Hubbs and Bailea Hubbs; three stepgreat-grandchildren, Andy Stites, Zach Stites and wife, Alli and Sara Maddox and husband, Justin; a sister, Clara Reutter and husband, Bob of Gordon, Neb.; a brother, Russell Eichenberger and wife, Rochelle, of Sun City, Ariz. and numerous nieces and nephews.
Dorothy was preceded in death by her parents, Paul and Lydia Eichenberger; her husband, Rollin D. Watson; a brother, Albert Eichenberger; and three sisters, Theresa Young, Alice Turnbull and Helen Hanson.
Funeral services were held 2 p.m. Wednesday, April 25, 2018, in the R.E. Shearwood Memorial Chapel with the Rev. David Bigger officiating. Eulogist was David Hubbs.
Pallbearers included David Hubbs, Cody Hubbs, Jacob Land, Zach Stites, Dewayne Page and Terry Oliver. Honorary pallbearers included Andy Stites, Glen Kirby and Chuck Turnbull.
Burial followed in Brooken Cemetery under the direction of King & Shearwood Funeral Home of Stigler.