Twila Gail Watters Lawson Tennant Massey, age 68 of Carl Junction, passed away at 6:41 p.m. Thursday, December 7, 2006 at St. John's Regional Medical Center Emergency Room after a long illness.
Born July 10, 1938 in Carthage, she was the daughter of the late Isaac B. "Ike" Watters and Merle Agnes Lile Watters. Raised in Racine, she attended Neosho schools and lived her lifetime in Southwest Missouri, the past 28 years in Carl Junction. In her early life she worked for Miller Manufacturing. She worked over 30 years at Denny's Restaurant. Her main focus in life was her family and she was a devoted mother and grandmother. She loved nature and fed, cared for and nursed back to health many birds and wild animals. A very charitable person, she was willing to freely give of what means she had to help those less fortunate or in need.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Bob Massey.
Survivors include one son, James Dean "Jimmy" Lawson and three daughters; two brothers, Michael and Gary; three sisters, Dorothy Mae "Dottie" Watters Ogden Griffoth, Inez and Ann; four grandchildren and fourteen great-grandchildren.
Her first four children were from her marriage to Glen Lawson, her last child was from her marriage to Herb Tennant.
Former son-in-law: Phillip Jake Patton 1953-2006
Note:
Gail and her husband Herb Tennant lived down the road from my family when we lived in Joplin Missouri. We lived next to the KOA Campground and they lived on down the road to the east. They were friends of my parents. Later on after we had moved to Granby and had opened a beauty shop in Joplin, a couple of her sisters were our customers: Inez and Dottie.
Born July 10, 1938 in Carthage, she was the daughter of the late Isaac B. "Ike" Watters and Merle Agnes Lile Watters. Raised in Racine, she attended Neosho schools and lived her lifetime in Southwest Missouri, the past 28 years in Carl Junction. In her early life she worked for Miller Manufacturing. She worked over 30 years at Denny's Restaurant. Her main focus in life was her family and she was a devoted mother and grandmother. She loved nature and fed, cared for and nursed back to health many birds and wild animals. A very charitable person, she was willing to freely give of what means she had to help those less fortunate or in need.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Bob Massey.
Survivors include one son, James Dean "Jimmy" Lawson and three daughters; two brothers, Michael and Gary; three sisters, Dorothy Mae "Dottie" Watters Ogden Griffoth, Inez and Ann; four grandchildren and fourteen great-grandchildren.
Her first four children were from her marriage to Glen Lawson, her last child was from her marriage to Herb Tennant.
Former son-in-law: Phillip Jake Patton 1953-2006
Note:
Gail and her husband Herb Tennant lived down the road from my family when we lived in Joplin Missouri. We lived next to the KOA Campground and they lived on down the road to the east. They were friends of my parents. Later on after we had moved to Granby and had opened a beauty shop in Joplin, a couple of her sisters were our customers: Inez and Dottie.
Twila Gail Watters Lawson Tennant Massey, age 68 of Carl Junction, passed away at 6:41 p.m. Thursday, December 7, 2006 at St. John's Regional Medical Center Emergency Room after a long illness.
Born July 10, 1938 in Carthage, she was the daughter of the late Isaac B. "Ike" Watters and Merle Agnes Lile Watters. Raised in Racine, she attended Neosho schools and lived her lifetime in Southwest Missouri, the past 28 years in Carl Junction. In her early life she worked for Miller Manufacturing. She worked over 30 years at Denny's Restaurant. Her main focus in life was her family and she was a devoted mother and grandmother. She loved nature and fed, cared for and nursed back to health many birds and wild animals. A very charitable person, she was willing to freely give of what means she had to help those less fortunate or in need.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Bob Massey.
Survivors include one son, James Dean "Jimmy" Lawson and three daughters; two brothers, Michael and Gary; three sisters, Dorothy Mae "Dottie" Watters Ogden Griffoth, Inez and Ann; four grandchildren and fourteen great-grandchildren.
Her first four children were from her marriage to Glen Lawson, her last child was from her marriage to Herb Tennant.
Former son-in-law: Phillip Jake Patton 1953-2006
Note:
Gail and her husband Herb Tennant lived down the road from my family when we lived in Joplin Missouri. We lived next to the KOA Campground and they lived on down the road to the east. They were friends of my parents. Later on after we had moved to Granby and had opened a beauty shop in Joplin, a couple of her sisters were our customers: Inez and Dottie.
Born July 10, 1938 in Carthage, she was the daughter of the late Isaac B. "Ike" Watters and Merle Agnes Lile Watters. Raised in Racine, she attended Neosho schools and lived her lifetime in Southwest Missouri, the past 28 years in Carl Junction. In her early life she worked for Miller Manufacturing. She worked over 30 years at Denny's Restaurant. Her main focus in life was her family and she was a devoted mother and grandmother. She loved nature and fed, cared for and nursed back to health many birds and wild animals. A very charitable person, she was willing to freely give of what means she had to help those less fortunate or in need.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Bob Massey.
Survivors include one son, James Dean "Jimmy" Lawson and three daughters; two brothers, Michael and Gary; three sisters, Dorothy Mae "Dottie" Watters Ogden Griffoth, Inez and Ann; four grandchildren and fourteen great-grandchildren.
Her first four children were from her marriage to Glen Lawson, her last child was from her marriage to Herb Tennant.
Former son-in-law: Phillip Jake Patton 1953-2006
Note:
Gail and her husband Herb Tennant lived down the road from my family when we lived in Joplin Missouri. We lived next to the KOA Campground and they lived on down the road to the east. They were friends of my parents. Later on after we had moved to Granby and had opened a beauty shop in Joplin, a couple of her sisters were our customers: Inez and Dottie.
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