Linda Erneka Watkins

CELEBRATION OF LIFE
FOR
Linda Erneka Garland Watkins
"NeKa"
ALPHA OMEGA
February 29, 1976 July,16,2014 Monday July 21, 2014 @1:00 PM
ROSEBUD BAPTIST CHURCH
249 Gigg Road
Dundas, Virginia 23938

Reverend Waverly E. Brown, Sr., Pastor

A TIME TO BE BORN...

Linda Erneka Garland Watkins was born on February 28, 1976 to Edward Garland and Linda Garland, in South Hill, Virginia.

A TIME TO GROW...

She was educated in Lunenburg County Public Schools. On the confession of her faith, Linda accepted Christ as her personal savior at Saint Matthew's Baptist, Kenbridge, Virginia. Later moving her membership, she joined Rosebud Baptist Church Dundas, Virginia.

A TIME TO LOVE

Linda was affectionately known as "NeKa" by family and friends. Linda was joined in holy matrimony to Willie Watkins, Jr. on August 26, 2005, to this union, one son was born Christopher Watkins. She loved collecting Pocket books and watching Crime Shows. She enjoyed puppies (Precious). She had a joyous love for the elderly and family.

A TIME TO DIE

On Wednesday July 16, 2014, Linda Erneka Garland Watkins finished her earthly works and quietly slipped into eternal sleep at her residence in Kenbridge, Virginia.

She was preceded in death by her loving husband, Willie Watkins, Jr., grandparents, Thomas C. Garland, Theodore and Victoria Brydie and uncle, Calvin O. Garland.
A TIME TO MOURN

She leaves to cherish her precious memory: a loving son, Christopher Watkins, parents, Linda Garland and Edward (Patricia) Garland, step-father, Alonzo Quarles, sister, Latarsha (Shawn) Greene, grandparents, Rebecca Garland, Billie Garland and Mary White, father-in-law, Willie Watkins, Sr., (Cherol); mother-in-law, Patricia Watkins, sister-in-laws, Tammy Watkins-Moton (Keith), Tasha Jones -Foster (Accu), and Shalonda Watkins; aunts, Doris Neal, Kim Jennings, Mary Burns (Thomas), Cheryl Edmonds (Wilbert), Iona Lee (Billy), uncles, Keith and Napoleon Garland, Charlie Neal, Michael Jennings, Thomas White, James White (Margaret), John White (Wanda), Robert White (Sandy Mae), nephews; godson Ta'Sean Greene), Tyrek and Malik Foster, Kamron and Keith Moton III and Xsavior Barnes, nieces, Destiny and Taniyah Foster, a host of great uncles and aunts, other relatives and friends, devoted friends; Scottie Hawthorne and Mary Johnson.