Name: Visitation for Jessie Montgomery Watkins
Start: 2020-02-21T15:00:00.000Z
End: 2020-02-21T16:00:00.000Z
Location: Xavier University, St. Katherine Drexel Chapel

Jessie Montgomery Watkins departed this life on Saturday February 1, 2020. She was the daughter of the late Jesse Montgomery and Chacey Jackson Montgomery, the wife of the late Wesley Joseph Watkins, Jr., mother of Jessica Marie Watkins and the late Wesley Joseph Watkins, III, M.D. (Shirlee Marie Watkins) also grandmother of Erica Michelle Watkins, Wesley Joseph Watkins, IV, Ph.D. (Shaunte Mears Watkins) and great grandmother of Nicole Evelyn Watkins. Relatives and friends of the family are invited to attend a funeral at Xavier University, St. Katherine Drexel Chapel, 1 Drexel Drive on Friday February 21, 2020 at 10:00 a.m. Visitation 9:00 a.m. until 10:00 a.m. Interment St. Patrick Cemetery #3, 143 City Park Avenue. Arrangements by D. W Rhodes Funeral Home, 7411 Chef Menteur Highway. Please visit www.rhodesfuneral.com to sign the online guestbook.

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Published by The Times-Picayune from Feb. 19 to Feb. 21, 2020.

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Anita Franklin

April 5, 2020

I'm so sorry to hear about the loss of your mother. It was my pleasure to lift her spirits from time to time with Godiva chocolate. My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family.

Mary Rodgers

February 20, 2020

Remembering with love, Mary Rodgers

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9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.

Xavier University, St. Katherine Drexel Chapel

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10:00 a.m.

Xavier University, St. Katherine Drexel Chapel

1 Drexel Drive, LA

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Rhodes Funeral Home - Chef Menteur Hwy

7411 Chef Menteur Hwy, New Orleans, LA 70126

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