Cecelia Annette Watson

Funeral: 12:30 p.m. Wednesday at Moore Funeral Home Chapel. Interment: Moore Memorial Gardens. Visitation: 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home.

Cecelia was born July 12, 1942, in Arlington and graduated from Arlington High School in 1959. She lived there most of her life before moving to Mansfield to be closer to family.

Cecelia was a happy and light-hearted person who loved to laugh. Her hobbies included collecting clowns, teapots, quilts as well as cooking big feasts for the family during holidays. Her joy was spending time with her grandkids and seeing them grow up.

Cecelia was a loving and supportive wife, mother, grandmother, sister and friend who will be missed by all those she leaves behind.

Cecelia was preceded in death by her husband of 47 years, Richard N. Watson Sr.; mother and father, John and Vera Dennehy of Arlington; and sisters, Vera Cantrell of Arlington and Jean Bowen of Seagoville.

Survivors: Sons, Richard N. Watson Jr. of Red Oak, Jason K. Watson and wife, Katie, of Mansfield; and daughter, Michelle Hampton of Mansfield. She was a loving grandmother to grandchildren, Zachary Watson, Cory Watson, Hanna Hampton, Kelsey Watson and Kyle Watson: and great-granddaughters, Charlie Jo

Watson and Paisley LeAnn Watson. She also leaves behind sisters, Delia Rhea of Itasca and Mary Jo Humphries of Dallas, and a brother, John Dennehy of Arlington.