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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON Rappahannork Knn Staff Writer
In his 50 years of snipping and trimming, Marion Watts has left a trail of hair that stretches from the Fiji Islands in the South Pacific to the Blue Ridge foothills of Rappahannock.
A barber in the county for 36 years. Watts celebrated a half century in the business in September. And after all this time, he still loves his job. "I have no plans for retiring. None whatsoever. As long as I’m able, I plan to keep right on working.”
Besides, he’s tried retirement once already and found it not to his liking. After the building that housed his Amissville shop changed hands, he decided that 48 years of barbering were enough for anyone.
“I was going to retire but all my friends were either somewhere else or still doing things. I got bored with just looking at TV. I decided my friends would be in more often if I opened another shop.” he explained.
Now the red and white pole goes round and round again in front of the apartment building next door to Washington’s post office, a flag marking one of the county’s unofficial landmarks.
Watts started his career at a Richmond barbering school in 1930. A native of Lynchburg. he set up shop first in Culpeper, a long way from home. But that was just the first jump. He put thousands and thousands of more miles between his barberchair and southwest Virginia with the outbreak of World War II.
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