Former Marion sheriff passes away

Ronald Watkins, with the Marion County Sheriffs Department from 1975 to 1989 and as sheriff from 1993-2000, passed away Thursday at WVU’s Ruby Hospice Care in Morgantown. He was born and lived in Fairmont.

He is survived by his wife, Karen, of 44 years, two daughters, one granddaughter and a brother.

Jim McDaniel, Class of 1960, who lives in Behoboth Beach, Delaware, remembers:

John: 

I was in Worthington the night that car bomb exploded.  Blew all of the windows out of my Grandfather's house across the street from the gas station.  It blew Ron Watkins several feet; do not know how he survived.  He looked

Terrible; was so glad he did survive and was elected Sheriff 2 times.  

Jim

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