MACON, GA-- MERLENE GORMAN WAID, age 75 died Friday, February 13, 2004. Services are 1P.M. Monday, February 16, 2004, graveside in Moseley Family Cemetery on Griffin Road in Macon. -Born in Faulkner County, AR, she was a homemaker and widow of the late Gordon B. "Joe" Waid. She was a former resident of Lake Sinclair. -Survivors include children, Joe G. and Martha Waid and Charles W. and Debbie Waid; grandchildren, Joe G. Waid, II, Jamie and Jessie Waid, Janna and Amanda Waid, Jimmy and Kimberly Bagley and Melissa Godfrey; great-grandchildren, Dilan and Daniel. -The family will receive friends from 6:00 until 8:00 P.M. Sunday, February 15 at Rooks Funeral Home in Byron. -Rooks Funeral Home in Byron has charge of arrangements. 
--Macon Telegraph, The (GA) - February 15, 2004

MEMPHIS, TN--EUGENE J. WATKINS, 78, of Memphis, railroad machinist, died of cancer Tuesday at Methodist Hospital. Services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at Memphis Funeral Home Union Chapel with burial in Springhill Cemetery in Faulkner County, Ark.
He was a member of Longstreet United Methodist Church.
Mr. Watkins, the husband of Ruth Watkins, also leaves two daughters, Kimble McTyre and Geneva Stroud, both of Memphis; two brothers, Arnold Watkins of Leachville, Ark., and Woodrow Watkins of Mayflower, Ark., seven grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
--Commercial Appeal, The (Memphis, TN) - March 13, 1996