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Frank Watson Jr. dies: Memphis lawyer represented FedEx
Frank Lee Watson Jr. played a key position in one of the most significant developments in modern day Memphis. Functioning alongside Fred Smith, the law firm was instrumental in locating Smith’s innovative new delivery corporation — then recognised as Federal Specific — in Memphis. “He was Fred’s ideal-hand male for quite a whilst in the early days,” stated Watson’s son, Frank Watson III, also a Memphis lawyer. Frank Lee Watson Jr., 81, died Aug. 25 of purely natural triggers at his Midtown home. Energetic till the conclusion, he had planned a bike ride with his son in Overton Park for that working day, and had scheduled a fly-fishing getaway in…