Sumter-Benhill-Irwin County GaArchives Obituaries.....Pryor, James Jarratt August 24, 1980
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The Fitzgerald Herald, Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Georgia, Thursday, August 28, 1980, Front Page
The Fitzgerald Herald
Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Georgia
Thursday, August 28, 1980
Front Page
         Final rites for Herald co-founder held Tuesday
   James Jarratt Pryor, 85, co-founder of the Fitzgerald Herald and retired 
postmaster, died Sunday night ( August 24, 1980 ) at Dorminy Memorial 
Hospital.
   Funeral services were held at Central United Methodist Church at 11 a.m. 
Tuesday with the  Rev. Donald J. Sparks officiating and  Mrs. James Lee 
providing organ music.  Dr. Ned Steele, Waycross, also participated in the brief 
graveside rights in Evergreen cemetery.
   Serving as active pallbearers were grandsons Henry H. Cobb III.,  Gerald H. 
Pryor,  Gibson Pryor   and  Jarratt Pryor II.,  nephews  Claude Person Jr.,  R. 
McBride Pryor, Jr.  and  Cam Patterson, and great nephew  Robert Bodge.
   Honorary pallbearers were members of the Carlyle Sunday School class,  
directors of Fitzgerald Federal Savings & Loan Association  and  Larry 
Stephenson,  Fitzgerald  Federal secretary-treasurer.
   Born January 26 1895 in Leslie,  he was the son of the late Shepherd Green  
and  Anna Gatewood Wilson Pryor.  He had been a resident of Fitzgerald since 
1902.  His first wife, the former   Catherine Clark Wilcox, died in 1931.  In 
December 1956  he  and the former  Ruth Wheless Griner were married.
   It was in about 1914 that the deceased opened a small print shop.  Later he 
invited his brother, the late  S. G. Pryor, Jr.  to join him in the business
venture, 
and it was in November 1916 that they published fhe first issue of  The Fitzgerald 
Herald, of which he remained co-owner and associate editor until the paper was 
sold to his son in 1959.  He served the newspaper as editor emeritus from 1959 
until his death.
   Mr. Prior was appointed Fitzgerald’s postmaster in May 1940, serving in that 
capacity until his retirement in December 1964.  His tenue was longer than that 
of any other former postmaster.
   He was an honorary member of the administrative board of Central United 
Methodist Church and a director of Fitzgerald Federal Savings and Loan 
Association since its founding.  He was a past commander of the American 
Legion Post 99, a Mason and a member of Knights Templar.  He was a former 
member of the Fitzgerald Lion’s Club, a former member of the U. S. Navy 
League and a U.S. Army veteran of World War I.
   Survivors include:  his wife,  Mrs. J. J. Pryor, Fitzgerald.  Two sons,  Dr.
James 
J. Pryor Jr., Augusta  and  Gerald W, Pryor, Fitzgerald.  Two daughters,  Mrs 
Anna Pryor Cobb, Athens  and  Elizabeth Louise Pryor, Milledgeville.  Two 
brothers,  Frank L. Pryor,  Houston, Tex.  And  William A. Pryor,  Cordele.  A 
sister,  Mrs. C. C. Persons, Fitzgerald.
   Seven grandchildren and five great-grandchildren also survive.
   The family requested that those desiring to make contributions in lieu of 
flowers, give to American Cancer Society or Central United Methodist 
Church.                                                             


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