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Watkins Retires From HORC After 37-Year Stint
EB. M. Watkins known as Watty retires from Humble's Baytown Refinery after a 37 year career ending as head of the Lube Processing Department. He plans a two month Alaska hunting trip with wife Billie and friends Nowyta and Babe Badgler returning in October. Watkins, born in Welsh Louisiana, studied at LSU and joined Humble in 1929 in Baytown’s Refinery Band. He held multiple posts including general foreman of the Lube Treating Dept and helped build a Sicily plant in 1961. He returned to Baytown in 1964 to head Lube Processing and has been active in civic groups and church. They have a son Marshallyne and a daughter Amwell Ponder plus four grandsons and a granddaughter.
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EB. M
Watty) Watkins
Humble
Baytown
Alaska
Billie
Nowyta
Babe Badgler
Watkins
Welsh
Louisiana State University
Sicily
Watking
Community Chest Board
Wooster
St. Mark's