OBITUARY: Ralph Watson, Jackson County, Oregon ********************************************************************************* USGENWEB ARCHIVES(tm) NOTICE: ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/or/orfiles.htm ********************************************************************************* Transcribed and formatted for use in USGenWeb Archives by Elizabeth Corethers 14 July 2003 *************************************************************************** Medford (Oregon) Mail Tribune, Friday, 21 June 1929, p. 3, c. 4 WATSON--Ralph Watson, aged 29 years, 10 months and 7 days, passed away Tuesday evening, June 18, at a Santa Ana hospital. He had been confined there following nine weeks with spinal meningitis, having only been momentarily conscious twice. Every medical aid possible was rendered, but to no avail. He was formerly of Medford, having moved here in 1910 and spent most of his school days at Oak Grove and at Medford high school, where he graduated with the class of '21. Besides his wife, formerly Miss Alice Schleichert, who with his mother, were with him at his death, he leaves his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Watson, of Medford, three brothers and one sister, Ambers of Grant's Pass, George Harry and Miss Edmere, all of Medford. He leaves many friends both in Medford and Anaheim, Calif., where he had lived for the past four years. The remains will be buried in the Anaheim cemetery Saturday morning.