A resident of Chatham, John Watt passed away at the Chatham-Kent Health Alliance, Chatham Campus with family at his side on Sunday, May 19, 2019 at the age of 94.<\/p>\n
Born in Mallaig, Scotland John was the son of the late Francis and Bridgette (Livingston) Watt.<\/p>\n
Beloved husband of 57 years to the late Alice (nee Burleigh) (2007).<\/p>\n
Loving father of Sandy Wilkinson (late Wayne Mackintosh) of Chatham, Randy Watt (Lu) of Sarnia, Rick Watt (Luanne) of Sarnia and Cindy Court (Doug) of Atlanta.<\/p>\n
Grandfather of 11 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren.<\/p>\n
Sister-in-law to Mary Watt of Ingersoll. Predeceased by his siblings Francis Watt (late Eudora), Angus Watt and Margaret Smith. Also missed by many nieces, nephews, friends and extended family.<\/p>\n
John served as a gunner in the Canadian Military. He retired from Chrysler after over 50 years of service.<\/p>\n
Family will receive friends at the Funeral Home, 459 St. Clair Street, Chatham on Saturday, June 1, 2019 from 3:00 – 5:00 pm and 7:00 – 9:00 pm. A Celebration of John’s Life will be held at The Salvation Army – Chatham Citadel, 46 Orangewood Blvd, Chatham at 2:00 pm on Sunday, June 2, 2019 with Captains Stephen and Karen Holland officiating.<\/p>\n
Special thanks for the staff at St. Andrew’s Residence and the 4th floor nurses at CKHA for their care and compassion.<\/p>\n
Donations made in memory of John to The Salvation Army would be appreciated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A resident of Chatham, John Watt passed away at the Chatham-Kent Health Alliance, Chatham Campus with family at his side on Sunday, May 19, 2019 at the age of 94.","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-13 21:23:10","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/obituaries\/2019\/05\/watt-john-aged-94-chatham\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6373,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6359\/revisions\/6373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}