Scioto County OhArchives Obituaries.....Prayther, James Garfield May 24, 1941
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The Portsmouth Times, 25 May 1941
Sunday May 25, 1941
J.G. Prayther Taken By Death
Former Open Hearth Employee Passes Away Following Operation

James Garfield Prayther, 60, of 1322 Kinney's Lane, Former employee of the 
open hearth department of Portsmouth works, Wheeling Steel Corp., passed away 
at 10:45 p.m. Saturday in Mercy Hospital.  Mr. Prayther had been in ill health 
the last year and underwent a major operation in St. Joseph Hospital, 
Lexington, Jan. 1924.  He has admitted to Mercy Hospital at 6 p.m. Saturday 
and underwent another operation at 9 p.m.  He was born Nov. 11, 1880, at 
Morehead, a son of Frank and Anna Donohoe Prayther.  Mr. Prayther is survived 
by his wife, Mrs. Nancy Prayther; three daughters, Mrs. Lola Davis and Mrs. 
Edna Swain, both of 1332 Kinney's Lane, Mrs. Florine McConnell, 1815 Oakland 
Avenue; three sisters, Mrs. Mamie Day of Newcastle, Ind,; Mrs. Blanche Pigman 
and Mrs. Flora HIcks of Morehead, two brothers, Joseph Prayther of Logan, W. 
Va., and William Prayther of Englewood, Calif.  He also is survived by one 
grandchild.  The body has been moved to Windel-Howland funeral home.  Funeral 
services will be held at the funeral home at 10 a.m. Tuesday with Rev. C.M. 
Bowman, pastor of First United Brethren Church, officiating.  Burial will 
follow in Greenlawn Cemetery.


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