She was born in Roanoke, VA to Theodore R. & Elsie W. (Bell) Caudill.
At 3, her parents moved her & her sister, Doris to Denver, CO until 1950, to G. J., where she attended school and was a 1957 graduate of GJHS.
She met and married James Theodore Watkins April 24th, 1960 in Carson City, NV.
They lived in San Rafael, CA. where she worked at Macy's, and she had 2 children. They moved to G.J. when her mother got cancer in 1969.
She is survived by her daughter Brenda (Gary) Schwark & son Troy Watkins, 4 grandchildren, and 2 great grandsons, sister Nita Geisler, niece and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her husband Jim, sister Doris Schmidt, a nephew & great nephew.
Services will be at 10am, May 8th at Callahan-Edfast Mortuary. Burial will follow at Veterans Memorial Cemetery.