OBITUARY: Prater, Edward,  died June 15, 2004

From: vivianmoon@juno.com  
Date: June 16, 2004

June 16, 2004    Middletown Journal, Middletown, Ohio



Edward Prater 

Mr. Edward ³Shorty² Prater, 81, of Middletown, Ohio, 
passed away at 7:05 a.m. Tuesday, June 15, 2004, at Willow 
Knoll Nursing Center where he had been a patient for 13 days. 

He was born Aug. 29, 1922, in Wolfe County, Ky., and had 
lived in Middletown since 1940. He served in the U. S. Army 
during World War II. Mr. Prater was a sheet metal worker for 
the Local 224 for 15 years. He was also the former police 
chief of Gratis, Ohio. 

He was preceded in death by his parents, Everett and 
Elsie (Dykes) Prater; his wife, Carmel Prater in 1988; a 
brother, William Holt Prater; and three nephews. 

He is survived by a daughter, Connie Prater of 
Middletown; three grandchildren, Yalonda Paxton, 
Tiffany Paxton and Brittany Paxton, all of Middletown; 
three great grandchildren, Mackenzie, Kole and Kaedon 
Everett; three sisters, Virginia Gilley, and husband, James, 
and Elizabeth Burns, all of Franklin, Ohio, and Janet Riegel, 
and her husband, Don, of Germantown, Ohio; a brother, 
James Prater, and wife, Carol, of Liberty, Ind.; a niece whom 
he helped raise, Bonnie Albright, and husband, Phillip, of 
Trenton, Ohio; and many loving nieces and nephews and 
too many friends to name, including his McDonald,s friends. 

ARRANGEMENTS: Visitation will be from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. 
Friday, June 18, at the Herr-Riggs Funeral Home, 210 S. Main 
St., Middletown, where funeral services will follow at 1 p.m. 
Pastor Ken Murphy will officiate. Interment will be at 
Germantown Cemetery, Germantown, Ohio, with military 
services by the American Legion Post 218 Honor Guard. 

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