Lucy Watts

Lucy Mae Watts, daughter of James Aubrey Gaynor and Lula Virginia Costello, died 2 October 2018. Born in Summit Point, Jefferson County, WV, February 11, 1923, she married Julius Irving Watts, 21 years later on her birthday. They were married in Hagerstown, Maryland. Mr. Watts was in the Army medical corps, stationed at Newton D. Baker General Hospital in Martinsburg, WV, when they met and married. He was deployed to the European Theatre in 1945. In 1946, Mrs. Watts and her two year old son, Donald Eugene, departed West Virginia, for Germany. Except for visits with her family in West Virginia, Mrs. Watts never returned to West Virginia permanently. She lived in Glen Burnie, Maryland, for the past 58 years.

Mrs. Watts' husband died in 1974, aged 49. She leaves four children, Donald Eugene (Deborah), Bruce Irving, Karen Lynn Lineberger (Richard MacSaveny), and Patricia Maria Wright (Michael); five grandchildren and thirteen great-grandchildren. Mrs. Watts has one surviving sibling, Dorothy P. Stickles. Mrs. Watts was the eldest daughter by her mother's second marriage. The siblings who predeceased Mrs. Watts were Marjorie Garrett, Alice Ellis, Harold Pomeroy, James Lewis Gaynor, Irma Ruth Riley, Lula Juanita Morgan, Margaret Estelle Gaynor, Daniel Nathaniel Gaynor, Janet Louise Gaynor and Joseph Jay Pittman Gaynor.
Mrs. Watts will be interred at Arlington National Cemetery, with her husband. Services have not yet been determined. Remembrances of Mrs. Watts may be made to The ARC [The Association for Retarded Citizens] Northern Chesapeake Region (https://arcncr.org/donate/online/).

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