COOKEVILLE — A Mass of Christian Burial for Mrs. Pamela Doris Watson, 83, of Baxter, will be celebrated at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 11, at St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church in Cookeville. Interment will follow in Smellage Cemetery in the Boma community of Putnam County.

Mrs. Watson's family will receive friends from 4-8 p.m. Monday, Sept. 10, at the funeral home in Baxter, and from 10 a.m. until time of Mass on Tuesday, at the church.

Mrs. Watson died Friday, Sept. 7, 2018, at her residence.

She was born June 15, 1935, in Boma, Tennessee, to the late Grady and Nola Edna Lowe Jernigan.

She attended Baxter Seminary.

She and her husband, Robert Carlon, moved to Detroit, Michigan in 1952, and she was employed at National Bank of Detroit for 30 years. She had been a member of Saint Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church in Cookeville since returning to live in Tennessee in 1997.

Pamela Doris was loving and devoted to her family. She had a strong work ethic and was generous and thoughtful and led by example. She enjoyed reading, gardening, traveling, animals and was an excellent cook.

She is survived by her adoring family, her husband of 67 years, Robert Carlon Watson; four children, Myra (Hank) DeHerder of Shelby Township, Michigan, Roger (Laura Brown) of Lacock, England, Tim (Kathy) Watson of Green Bay, Wisconsin, and Tom (Jackie) Watson of Stockbridge, Michigan; six grandchildren, Henrik DeHerder, Lindsay Kindlon, Benjamin Watson, Kathryn Ahlbrandt-Watson, Jason Watson and Crystal Watson; eight great-grandchildren; sisters, Pearl Harris, Jean (Arnold) Robinson, all of Baxter, and Judy Moore of San Antonio, Texas; a brother, Norman Jernigan of Shelby Township, Michigan; and many nieces and nephews.

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by four sisters, Essie Kremske, Ova Julian, Olive Jared and Nell Walker; and five brothers, John Thurman, Jasper "Buddy," Charlie, Glenn and Henry "Jr." Jernigan.

Pallbearers will be family and friends.

Father James Panackal will officiate.