Frederick Kingsbury Watson Jr. ’59

Frederick Kingsbury Watson Jr. ’59 died on May 20. He entered Dartmouth from Mount Pleasant High School in Wilmington, Delaware. He was a member of Zeta Psi and was in the 3/2 program with the medical school, from which he graduated in 1960. He never completed his M.D., but did attend the Museum School in Boston. He worked as a landscape gardener and ran a pick-your-own strawberry farm in East Alstead, New Hampshire, for about 25 years. He traveled extensively in the winter months, spending time in Southeast Asia, where he worked for orphanages. He leaves his partner, Robert, and brother Robert ’66.


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