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- from "The Washington Post", 28 Oct 1987
FELTHAN WATSON, 85, a Washington lawyer who was a retired Justice Department trial attorney, died of a heart ailment Oct. 26 at the Bethesda Naval Hospital. He lived in Bethesda. Mr. Watson was a native of St. Louis and a graduate of St. Louis University and its law school. He practiced law in Missouri before serving as a U.S. government attorney in China from 1934 to 1938. During those years, he helped direct investigations into the sinking by Japanese forces of the USS Panay, a gunboat on the Yangtze River patrol. He then moved here, and was special assistant to the U.S. attorney general before entering the Navy in 1941. His duties during the war included tours as a Navy lawyer and as a gunnery officer aboard the carrier Ranger. In 1946, Mr. Watson joined the Justice Department's office of alien property. He retired as a trial attorney in the general litigation section in 1972. Since then, he had engaged in the private practice of law. Mr. Watson was a member of the Army & Navy Club and the Little Flower Catholic Church in Bethesda. Survivors include his wife, Janet C. Watson of Bethesda, and one sister, Lila Huppert of Okmulgee, Okla.
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1902 - 1987 (85 years)