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MK JAMES H. PKATTMOVILLE - Mrs. James H. Pratt of Moville died Monday night at a Sioux C ity hospital fol-lowirK a three-month illness. Horn March 20, 1892 at SchoonerPoint, Ind., she came to PlymouthCounty at the age of 17.The former Gola Weathers was married to James Pratt at I*-Mars on Dec. 16, 1914 and the couple farmed in the Kingsley-Moville area until retiring to Moville in 1944. He preceded her in death in 1953.Mrs. Pratt who attended Morning side College taught school in the Kingsley area for several years. Active in church and civic organizations, she had held local, county and state offices in Women’s Christian Temperance Ln-ion and was a member of Fldridge Memorial Cnited Methodist C hurch at Moville and its WSCS group. She also had been a lay leader and youth camp leader and church conference delegate.Surviving is one son,Ben Pratt of Kingsley; two daughters, Mrs. Ralph (Hilma) Artz of C herokeeand Mrs. Richard F. (Grace)Babcock of Moville; ten grandchildren and one great-grandchild, lour brothers, Harold Weathers of Des Moines, Marion of Dale-ville, Ind,, Arthur of Ft. Collins, Colo., and the Rev. Robert W eathers of Port Arthur, Tex., also survive.Funeral services were at 1p.m. Friday at Kingsley Cnited Methodist Church, Dr. John A. Dowd of Eldridge Methodist Church officiated and burial under the direction of McCulloch Funeral Home at Moville followed in the Kingsley Cemetery.
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Cherokee Courier
Cherokee, Iowa, US
Thu, Jan 09, 1969
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