Monica Jeanne Watson

Monica was born on Saturday, 30 August 1952, the second child of Josephine and Willard Winkley. She attended grammar school at Holy Cross and high school at North Catholic, graduating from there in 1970. She attended college at Portland State University and attained a bachelor’s degree in Spanish. She worked for several years for Lipman Wolfe and Co. and then for Nerco before deciding that she wanted to be a nurse.

Her specified goal for doing so was ‘to help the elderly’. She attended OHSU and graduated from the School of Nursing on 11 June 1993 with high honors as a registered nurse. She felt so very strongly about her goal of helping the elderly that she immediately after graduation started working at St Mary of the Valley Convalescent Home. She worked there for a short time and then moved over to Providence Elderplace where she continued working full time until recently. She was still working there in a part time capacity when she passed away.

She met her husband while attending Eucharistic Adoration at Saint Mary’s Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Portland in 2007. They were married on 14 June 2008.

She attended daily Mass with her husband at the 07:00 am Mass at Holy Rosary in Portland until the start of the pandemic and then they moved up to their house in Kalama, Washington where they attended daily Mass at St Phillip in Woodland, Washington until the present.

Monica leaves behind her husband, Dan, and her stepchildren, Joseph, Michael and David and daughter-in-law Katherine and grandchildren, Akito and Haruka. Monica also has an older Sister, Tracy Hyde and a younger brother Chris, both living in the Tri-Cities area.

Monica was a fantastic, loving, caring and compassionate individual. Monica was a peacemaker. Jesus says, “Blessed are the peacemakers for they will be called children of God.”

Monica passed away peacefully in her sleep on the 7th of March 2022. She was 69 years old. Her husband and family miss her immensely.

May she rest in peace.