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a. Note:   ANDERSON VALLEY NEWS Vol. 85 Thursday, February 22, 1968, Anderson, California 96007 No. 8
  Anderson High Graduate
  PFC WATSON KILLED IN VIETNAM
  by Shirley George
  Private First Class Stanley Watson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Milton Watson of Anderson, was killed in action in Vietnam this past week. The Watsons have received official word from the war department, but details of the action in which young Watson was killed, are not yet known.
  Stanley had been in Vietnam since December of last year. In one of his first letters home after his arrival in the combat zone he said, "Write as often as you can and pray a thousand times more than you write, for prayer is the most important thing." He also said in the same letter: "Don't worry about me straying away from God, because no one can make me lose the way."
  The Watsons are members of the Anderson Nazarene Church. Despite the loss of their son, the Watsons could still smile as they recalled their son in his younger days. Stanley was a 1965 graduate of Anderson High School.
  Considering the trials that this family has been through during the past eight months, the fact that they had a smile left it pretty remarkable in itself.
  In June of 1967, Stanley's uncle, Bob Watson, fell from a 400 foot radio tower he was working on in Anchorage, Alaska and was killed. In December of 1967, Stanley's Aunt and Uncle, Reverend and Mrs. Donald Bowman and their four children were in a samll boat in the sea of Japan, near the island where the Bowmans are missionaries, when a storm came up suddenly. The boat started to leak and quickly sank. The Bowmans, their children and passengers were in the water for over 10 hours while they swam to shore, trying desperately to keep their children alive. When they reached shore, all four of the children were dead, as well as one of the passengers.
  The Bowmans are back among "their" people again, firm and unshakeable in their belief in God's divine will.
  The Anderson Watsons are as firmly convinced as they ever were that death is only a benginning and not an end. They know without question, that the family will be re-united in Heaven one day.
  Stanley is survived by two brothers: Melvin, 21, a student at Northwest Nazarene College in Nampa, Idaho, and David a 16 year old student at Anderson Union High School; a sister Frieda, a student at Pasadena Nazarene College in Pasadena; his parents, Mrs. And Mrs. Milton Watson of Anderson; paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Challen Watson; material grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Evan Dillon and five aunts and uncles.
  Copied on March 12, 2000 by Evan Dillon, son of William Edward Dillon uncle and brother of Mrs. Milton (Veva) Watson.


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