John Watson Hull, 82, of Waldron, Ark., formerly of Saline County, died Thursday, Feb. 12, 2004, at Mercy Hospital in Waldron.

Interment will be in El Camino Memorial Park in San Diego, Calif., under the direction of Martin Funeral Home in Waldron.

Survivors include two stepdaughters, Barbara Craig of San Diego, Calif., and Paula Desmond of Rialto, Calif.; one sister, Mary Rose Thomas of Stillwater, Okla.; and two brothers, George T. Hull of Coffeyville, Kan., and Charles A. Hull of Joplin.

He was a retired aircraft machinist and U.S. Air Force veteran of World War II.