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Carl J. Watson, 49, of Monessen, passed away on Friday, April 4, 2025. The son of the late Robert Watson and Marla Burke, who survives and resides in Hancock, Michigan, he was born on July 2, 1975 in Baltimore, MD. Formerly of Penn, Carl has been resident of Monessen for the past three years. He was Lutheran by faith and a member of Monessen Hilltop Fire Dept. #2, station 81-2, where he served as the fire captain and on the executive board, and a former member of the Penn Boro Fire Dept., station 94. Carl had currently been employed at McKnight Medical and was a former dispatcher for both Armstrong and Westmoreland Counties. He served in the United States Army from 2001 to 2014. He began his career at Ft. Drum, NY from 2001 to 2003 and from there, he was deployed on a peace keeping mission to Kosovo, before serving in Alaska at Ft. Wainwright for 6 ½ years. Carl did two tours in Iraq, first from 2005 to 2006 and again from 2008 to 2009, where he received his combat medic badge. His next assignment was at Walter Reed Hospital in Bethesda, MD from 2009 to 2012. He served in Korea from 2012 to 2013 and finished his military career at Ft. Hood TX in 2014. He is survived by his wife, Lorena Morgan Watson, who would’ve celebrated 26 years of marriage on June 26th of this year, his stepmother, Charlotte Watson of Maryland, a daughter, Madison Watson at home, two sons, Shane Watson and Dakota Watson, both of Monessen, a sister, Jill (Daryl) Garr of Virginia, two stepsisters, Laura Mamaril and Tina Mamaril, and a stepbrother, Genaro Mamaril, Jr. Friends will be received on Saturday, April 12, 2025 from 2 to 4 P.M. and 7 to 9 P.M. and again on Sunday from 3 to 4 P.M. in the Ferguson Funeral Home and Crematory, Inc., 700 Broad Avenue, Belle Vernon. 724-929-5300. www.FergusonFuneralHomeandCrematory.com. Members of the Monessen Hilltop Fire Dept. will meet in the funeral home on Sunday at 3 P.M. Funeral services will be held in the funeral home on Sunday, April 13, 2025 at 4 P.M. with Rev. Rebecca Dittenhafer officiating. Interment will be in the National Cemetery of the Alleghenies on Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 10:30 A.M. Family and friends are asked to meet directly at the cemetery. If friends wish, in lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the Hilltop Fire Department #2, % Delmar Hepple, 1510 Marion Ave., Monessen, PA 15062.

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Carl J. Watson

July 2, 1975 - April 4, 2025