Graveside Services for Master Sergeant John Albert Watson will be held 11:00am Tuesday, October 10, 2023 at Sunset Memorial Garden, Johnston. Interment will follow. Reverend Willie Patten, Jr will Officiate.

Master Sergeant John Albert Watson was born to the late Willie and Ella Townson Watson on July 3, 1945 in Edgefield County, SC.

At an early age, he was baptized at the Pine Hill Baptist Church. He was a 1964 graduate of W.E. Parker High School in Edgefield, SC. He worked at Federal Pacific in Edgefield, SC for several years.

He was drafted in the United States Army in 1967. In the Army, he served during the Vietnam Conflict. He received the Bronze Star Medal, Meritorious Service Medal, Army Commendation Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters and many other awards. He was a member of the 122nd Engineer Battalion in Edgefield, SC, where he worked as a technician. On one of his more memorable deployments, he served in Bosnia (Operation Iraqi Freedom.) He served over 33 years in the military.

He was married to Betty Griffin Watson. This union was blessed with two children. Lisa Watson Dunbar and Christopher Scott Watson.

He leaves to remember and salute his memory, his children, Lisa (Allen) Dunbar, Beech Island, SC and Christopher (Marissa) Watson, Temecula, CA; three grandchildren, D’Andre Dunbar, Layla Mae Watson, and Scott Jacob Watson, two great-grandchildren, Lauren and Lailan Dunbar; a sister, Evorn (Albert) Drumming, Trenton, SC; an aunt, Minnie Buggs, Passaic NJ; two sisters-in-law, Debra Griffin, Trenton, SC, Patsy Mosley, Johnston, SC; two brothers-in-law, Toney (Cora) Griffin, Edgefield, SC and Michael (Petina) Waldo, Saluda, SC; special friends, Fred Marshall, Ronnie Hammond, Paul Collins, Ollie West and Arthur West; and a host of special nieces and nephews whom he loved so much and would do anything for them (smile) and other family members and friends.