Robert E. âBobâ Watters, age 68 years, of Oneida, Tennessee died October 19, 2013 in Knoxville, Tennessee at the North Knoxville Medical Center. Funeral services were held Wednesday, October 23, 2013 at 1pm in the McCreary County Funeral Home with Rev. Clay Cook officiating. Burial was in the Silerville Cemetery.
He was born in Pine Knot, Kentucky on May 21, 1945 the son of the late Hasten Waters and Flora (Strunk) Watters. He was a strip miner and of the Baptist Faith.
His parents; wife, Brenda (West) Watters; his grandmother who raised him, Maggie (King) Strunk; uncles, Delbert and Elmer Strunk; brother, Ronnie Daugherty, and granddaughter, Maggie Kristine Watters precede him in death.
Survivors include his son, Robert Dale Watters of Burnside, Kentucky; daughters, Lisa Watters Perkins and husband, Anthony of Pine Knot, Kentucky, Annette Watters Stephens of Burnside, Kentucky, and Shonda Wise of Hamilton Co., Ohio; brothers, Merle Daugherty and Gerald Daugherty both of Danville, Kentucky; sister, Patricia Ann Clark of Texas. Grandchildren, Brittany Garcia, Casie Torres, Jasper Stephens, Robert Dale Watters, Jr., Sasha Rae Watters, Hasten Cain Watters, Breanna LaShae Perkins, Katie Pridemore, and Jeremy Pridemore, and great grandchildren, Kadence Walker, Selena Garcia, Isaiah Garcia, Israel Malachi Torres, JJ Bueno, and Lilyanna Pridemore; special friend, Roselee Trammell of Strunk, Kentucky also survive.
McCreary County Funeral Home entrusted with the arrangements.