Jack Norris PRUETTE
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Jack Norris PRUETTE
| Gaylene_Kerr_Banister (View posts) | Posted: 12 Nov 2000 12:00PM GMT |
Classification: Obituary
Surnames: Grigsby, Heilig, Jehle, Jenkins, Kerr, Lynn, McKnight, Pruette, Teel
CARLSBAD -- Services for Jack Norris Pruette, 81, of Mariposa Street, will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at Denton-Funchess Funeral Home with Rev. Bob Bacon of First Baptist Church officiating. Private family burial will follow.
Mr. Pruette died Monday, June 1, 1998, at his home.
Denton-Funchess Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.
He was born on April 7, 1916, in East St. Louis, Ill., to Jack Abram and Lena Pruette. He married Lena Grigsby on March 24, 1941, in Alamogordo [New Mexico].
Mr. Pruette served in World War II in the U.S. Army 200th Coast Artillery achieving the rank of sargeant. He was involved in the Bataan Death March in the Philippines and was in a Japanese prison camp [Mukden, Manchuria] for over three years before being liberated by Russians in 1945.
He worked as a sheet metal worker for the Sheet Metal Workers Union #49. He retired in 1978 at the age of 62. He was a member of First Baptist Church.
He was preceded in death by brothers, Norman, Gladden and Dennis Pruette; and sisters, Loraine Lynn, Julia Jenkins, Louise Teel and Jacquelyn McKnight.
Survivors are his wife, Lena of the home; son, Steve Pruette of Saline, Mich.; sisters, Lois Kerr of Erie, Penn., Lena Jehle of Midland; and two grandchildren.
Source: Carlsbad (New Mexico) Current-Argus, 3 June 1998.
[Jack Norris Pruette moved to Runnels Co., TX, in 1920, from East St. Louis, St. Clair Co., IL, with his parents, Lena (Heilig) and Jack Pruette. Norris moved to Carlsbad, NM, about 1937.]
Mr. Pruette died Monday, June 1, 1998, at his home.
Denton-Funchess Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.
He was born on April 7, 1916, in East St. Louis, Ill., to Jack Abram and Lena Pruette. He married Lena Grigsby on March 24, 1941, in Alamogordo [New Mexico].
Mr. Pruette served in World War II in the U.S. Army 200th Coast Artillery achieving the rank of sargeant. He was involved in the Bataan Death March in the Philippines and was in a Japanese prison camp [Mukden, Manchuria] for over three years before being liberated by Russians in 1945.
He worked as a sheet metal worker for the Sheet Metal Workers Union #49. He retired in 1978 at the age of 62. He was a member of First Baptist Church.
He was preceded in death by brothers, Norman, Gladden and Dennis Pruette; and sisters, Loraine Lynn, Julia Jenkins, Louise Teel and Jacquelyn McKnight.
Survivors are his wife, Lena of the home; son, Steve Pruette of Saline, Mich.; sisters, Lois Kerr of Erie, Penn., Lena Jehle of Midland; and two grandchildren.
Source: Carlsbad (New Mexico) Current-Argus, 3 June 1998.
[Jack Norris Pruette moved to Runnels Co., TX, in 1920, from East St. Louis, St. Clair Co., IL, with his parents, Lena (Heilig) and Jack Pruette. Norris moved to Carlsbad, NM, about 1937.]