Clarissa Belle Watson
1866–1928
BIRTH 10 JUNE 1866 • Prescott, Texas, MO
DEATH 19 AUGUST 1928 • Houston, Texas, MO
Contributor: DDE

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The death of Mrs. J. D. Hilterbrand came at 3 o'clock last Sunday morning as a result of a stroke of paralysis and a sickness extending through a number of weeks past.

Belle Watson, daughter of Lewis and Clarissa Watson, was born June 10, 1866; at her death, August 19, 1928, she was 62 years, 2 months and 9 days of age. She was married to Jefferson D. Hilterbrand December 25, 1885, and to this union ten children were born: Virgil, of Truman, Ark.; Otto, of Jolley, Iowa; Earl and Roy, of Houston, Mo.; Ralph, of Junction City, Kansas; Guy, of Roberts, Idaho; Jess, of Miller, Mo.; Andrew, of Houston, Mo.; Jack, of Lockwood, Mo., and Mrs. Goldie Garwitz, of Springfield, Mo. All the children were at her bedside except Guy, and showed their appreciation of a dear good mother by the care and attention for her in her last sickness.

Mrs. Hilterbrand professed faith in Christ in the year 1887, united with Arthurs Creek Baptist church, where she remained for a short time and then transferred her membership to the Baptist church at Houston, where she spent the remainder of a consecrated christian life, ever faithful in attendance and in her christian zeal. She is survived by the loving husband and the ten children, to whom she was always kind and tender and true, a devoted wife and mother who will be sadly missed in this home. To this lonely and sorrowing companion and to these bereaved children the entire community joins in earnest sympathy, for the husband has lost a devoted wife, the children a loving mother, and the community has lost one of its best neighbors, a good friend to every one.

Funeral services were held at the Baptist church Monday forenoon, conducted by her pastor, Rev. H. B. Tillery, and burial followed in Houston cemetery.

Another of the splendid mothers of our land has passed to her eternal reward, to that home not made by human hands, eternal in the heavens, there to spend her eternity with the Lord she loved and served.

--Houston Herald, August 23, 1928 p. 4