Obit – Mrs. Jeanette Gammon Watts
Mrs. Jeanette Gammon Watts age 62 of Carthage was discovered unresponsive at 2:51 a.m. Thursday morning July 16, 2026 at her Jefferson Avenue West home and was pronounced deceased at 3:36 a.m. at the Highpoint Health-Riverview with Ascension Saint Thomas Medical Center Emergency Room.
Eld. Rickey Hall and Eld. Stephen Brooks officiated at the 11 a.m. funeral services on Tuesday morning July 21st. Burial followed in the Gammon family lot at the Patterson Cemetery on Hesson Ridge Lane in the Russell Hill Community with Eld. Michael Nesbitt officiating.
Congregational singing was led by Jimmy Wilburn.
Mrs. Watts was born at the former McFarland Hospital in Lebanon on August 31, 1963 and was one of three children, a daughter and two sons of the late Lafayette native Willie Cefus Gammon Jr. who died June 10, 1994 at the age of 64 and Russell Hill Community native Martha Christine Gammon who died May 12, 2002 at the age of 72.
Her two brothers, Jackie Gammon preceded her in death at the age of 72 on October 15, 2023 and Jerry Gammon who died at the age of 77 on June 22, 2025.
Mrs. Watts was a member of the 1981 graduating class at Smith County High School where she was active in the music program and served as the chorus club president her senior year and was Library Club reporter her senior year. The music activities included being in the marching band, the chorus, the Spring Festival, and was voted by her classmates as the “Most Talented” girl her senior year.
Mrs. Watts was united in marriage at the Hartsville Missionary Baptist Church to Hickman Community native Bruce Glynn Watts on September 11, 1982.
Jeanette was a member of the well-known Gammon Carthage Grocery family who established the Carthage I.G.A. on December 6, 1978 which was later changed to Foodland of Carthage. All of the Gammon family were involved in the operation of the popular Main Street North grocery which was located where the Upper Cumberland Electric Membership Cooperative corporate offices are now located next door to Sanderson Funeral Home.
Mrs. Watts was saved as a teenager and at the time of her death was a member of the Green Valley Missionary Baptist Church and also attended the North Gordonsville Missionary Baptist Church.
She was a talented piano player and singer played and sang for many church service and revivals at various churches.
Surviving in addition to her husband Bruce of almost forty-four years are their two sons, Matt Watts of Carthage, Jesse Watts also of Carthage; granddaughter, Margaret Watts of Carthage; sister-in-law, Suzanne Davis Gammon of the Tanglewood Community; nieces and nephews, Heather Gammon, Christine England, Julie Wyatt, Jerry Wayne Gammon, and Susan Gammon.
The Watts family has requested memorials to the Patterson Cemetery mowing fund.
SANDERSON of CARTHAGE
