Eddy County NM - OBIT:  Birdie Jean Prude

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Submitted by:  Patti Pennington  patt_p_99@yahoo.com
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The following excerpts were taken from page 2 Sec. B - The
Artesia (NM) Daily Press - September 26, 1999

PRUDE
Services are scheduled for Monday, September 27, at Eighth and
Grand Church of Christ for Birdie Jean Prude of Artesia.


The following excerpts were taken from page 8 - The Artesia
(NM) Daily Press - September 28, 1999

Obituaries

PRUDE
Services were held Monday, September 27, at Eighth and Grand
Church of Christ in Artesia, for Birdie J. Prude of Artesia
Good Samaritan Center.  Prude, 96, died on September 25 at the
center.  Interment followed at Woodbine Cemetery.  She was born
on September 8, 1903, in Hope, NM to W.P. Riley and Lizzie
Eleanor (Phillips) Riley.  She married Johnnie Lee Prude on
December 6, 1926, in Hope.  She was a lifelong Hope area resident.
She was a member of Eighth and Grand Church of Christ in Artesia.
She is survived by a son, Norman Prude, wife Autherean, of 
Artesia; numerous grandchildren.  She was preceded in death by
her husband and a daughter, Virginia Lou Prude, on 
September 26, 1950.