Ellen May Watson

Ellen May Watson, 79, longtime Moses Lake resident, passed away Friday, June 26, 2009, surrounded by family at LakeRidge Special Care Center.

A memorial service will be held at Moses Lake Senior Living Community, 3425 Aspi Blvd., (on the base), at 7:30 p.m. on July 3. Arrangements are in care of Basin Cremation & Burial Service, Moses Lake.

Ellen was born on April 11, 1930, in Shatic, Okla., daughter of Rudolph and Jennie Thomson. They moved to Washington when Ellen was 3 years old. She grew up in Roslyn and Tacoma, Wash., with her parents, sister Betty, and twin brother Allen.

While living in Tacoma, she met Leonard C. Watson and fell in love. They were married on Sept. 12, 1948. They started out their lives together in North Bend/Snoqualmie, Wash., where he owned a lawn mower shop and Highland Drive, and she raised their children. Then they came to Moses Lake in 1980, where they finished raising the three youngest children. She made he live in Moses Lake as a stay at home mom and even spent some time working at Big Bend Community College until 1985. Ellen loved being a mother and grandmother. Her children and husband Leonard were her life. She loved spending time with all of her family at picnics and family events. She was the nerve center that kept our family together.

She will be met by her parents and twin brother Allen.

She will be survived by her husband of almost 61 years, Leonard Watson, their seven children, 17 grandchildren, 28 great-grandchildren and four great-great-grandchildren.

Please come and join our family and share a memory or two of Ellen, and help us say goodbye to a wonderful woman, wife, mother, hero. She will be missed … but never forgotten … We love you!