Mrs. Susie Lee Watkins

Mrs. Susie Lee Watkins, age 96, of Adrian, died on Wednesday, February 16, 2022, at her home. Mrs. Watkins was born in Johnson County, one of eight children. She has lived in the Adrian / Johnson County area for most of her life. She had worked at the Shirt Factory in Swainsboro, the Pants Factory in Wrightsville and devoted another twenty years to the care of patients and residents at the Assisted Living and Rehabilitation Centers in Johnson and Treutlen Counties, until retiring in 1976. Mrs. Watkins has been a longtime, faithful member of the Norristown Revival Center, which she helped keep clean until within the past few weeks. In addition to her parents, the late Tee Durden and Mattie Lou Toler Durden, she is preceded in death by her husband, Grover Rabon Watkins, who passed away in 1994; two sons, Charles Wesley Watkins and Willie Lee Watkins; siblings, Ollie Mae Blaxton, Katie Pearl Sellers, Tommy Durden, Mark Durden, Frank Durden; and a grandson Mitchell Watkins.

Survivors include 2 sons, Donnie Rabon Watkins (Annette), Adrian, and G. C. Watkins (Shirley), Forsyth, daughter Ann Beck (Bill), Adrian, daughter-in-law Angie Watkins, Adrian, grandson Lee Watkins, (Laurie), Soperton, 3 sisters, Versie Coleman, Swainsboro, Rosie Stevens, Milledgeville, Vera Brightwell, Swainsboro, 14 grandchildren, 24 great-grandchildren, 21 great-great-grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews.

Funeral services were conducted at 3:30 p.m. on Saturday, February 19, 2022, in the Williams Chapel of Sammons Funeral Home with Reverend Jack Stafford officiating. Burial followed in Heath Cemetery.

Pallbearers were Wesley Watkins, Cooper Jump, Hunter Jackson, Gary Green, Jared Watkins and Juston Watkins.

Sammons Funeral Home of Soperton was in charge of arangments.