Myrtle Watson Turns 100 Years Young!

                         

   L to R: Cindy Sellers, Registrar; Carol Jutte, Regent; Myrtle Watson; Lynn Deen, Secretary; Pat Gooding, Vice-regent; and Phyllis Wilson, Historian Chapter members visited Myrtle Watson to celebrate her 100th Birthday.

              

Myrtle Watson holding a framed Wreaths Across America certificate in memory of her husband.

Myrtle and Regent Carol Jutte

Seated: Suzanne Winterhalter, Faye Cashwell, Connie Hendrix, Lynn Deen, Sherrill Sykes
Standing: Cindy Sellers, Myrtle Watson, Betsy Hamer, Carol Hart, Mo Stankard, Gwen Causey 

Myrtle Watson recently had a very special 100th birthday celebration when some members of the Brunswick Town DAR Chapter came up to surprise her and have lunch with her at the beautiful retirement center where she now lives in Wilmington, NC. Myrtle joined the Daughters of the American Revolution October 1969, which was 49 years ago.

At lunch, Myrtle talked about how she moved to Southport in 1937 when she was 19 and the only pavement was two blocks on Howe Street and two blocks on Moore Street. Her father was the new pastor of Southport Baptist Church.  Some young men of the church came to help move the family into the parsonage as they had heard that the new preacher had girls!  It turned out that she fell in love and married one of those young men, D I Watson, whose father ran the pharmacy.

She went to the DAR Continental Congress in 1976 and President Gerald Ford spoke to the members and they were able to tour the White House; that was 42 years ago. After retiring to Oak Island, Myrtle transferred her DAR membership to Brunswick Town Chapter.

All the ladies that attended the luncheon were amazed at how vivid Myrtle’s memory was and hoped she would continue to live many more years and remain in such good health. The chapter gave her a bouquet of flowers, a framed Wreaths Across America certificate donating a wreath to Wilmington National Cemetery in memory of her husband, D. I. Watson US Army Air Corps, and a birthday card along with the chapter paying her dues starting in 2019. Myrtle also celebrated her special birthday with family and friends.

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