Mable (Jeffries) Watkins, 94, of Point Marion, Pa., died Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2023, at her home with her loving family at her side. Born in Stewartstown, on Jan. 24, 1929, she was a daughter of the late James Lester and Virginia May (Heinze) Jeffries Sr.
From the time that she was a little girl she has been a member of the Restoration Branch of Jesus Christ in Morgantown. Mable was also a member of the former Golden Pointers Senior Citizens, where she always enjoyed singing a song she had written or telling joke. Whenever you saw Mable, her clothing, jewelry and hair were done perfectly, and she was always with a smile on her face. She loved her family, and she was very proud of the influence her father had on so many people over his lifetime and how her parents were able to raise such a large family with the little they had.
Surviving are two daughters, Mary Cupelli and husband Frank, of Morgantown, and Camille “Cammy” Hall, of Point Marion, Pa.; eight grandchildren and their families, including Alex Hall, who made his home with Mable; three sisters, Thelma DiDominico, of Morgantown, Wilma Shiflett, of Point Marion, Pa., and Helen Hess, of Tennessee; and a number of loving nieces and nephews.
Her husband and the true love of her life, Richard Watkins, died Dec. 1, 1993. Also deceased is her first husband and the father of her daughters, Erasmo “Duke” Battencourt; a daughter, Lilly Moody on Jan. 2, 2023; an infant son, Adam Battencourt; four brothers, James L. Jr., Earl, Bill and Harry Jeffries; two sisters, Mary Kisner and Luella Rizer, and three siblings in infancy.
The family will receive friends in the Richard R. Herod Funeral Home, Point Marion, Pa., from 4-7 p.m. on Sunday, and from 10 a.m. until the 11 a.m. hour of service on Monday, with her nephew, Elder Jerry Shiflett, officiating, assisted by Elder David Joyce. Interment follows in Mount Union Cemetery, Morgantown.
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