Greer County, OK - Obits: Macy Bell (Petree) Pruett, 1971
March 8, 2001

Submitted by: lmayes1@san.rr.com (Lynn Mayes)
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OBITUARY OF MACY BELL PETREE PRUETT, MONDAY MARCH 15, 1971 MANGUM STAR

Funeral Service For Mrs. Pruett Is Held Today

Mrs. Francis M. Pruett died Saturday, March 13, 1971, in the Mangum hospital after 
an extended illness.

Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. today (Monday) in the Baptist Church at Reed 
with Rev. Bill Mosley, pastor of Sulphur Baptist and Rev. Tom Bolton, pastor of the 
Reed Church, officiating. Interment was in the Reed Cemetery under direction of Greer 
Funeral Home.

Macy Bell Pruett was born October 29, 1881 in Coryell County, Texas, the daughter 
of Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Petree, and came to Greer County with her parents in 1904. 
She was married to Francis M. Pruett in 1905 and they made their home in the Sulphur 
Community. He preceeded her in death in 1926.

Surviving are two sons and five daughters, Frances Pruett of Lawton, Hoyt Pruett 
of Perryton, Texas, Mrs. Myrtle Smith of Mangum, Mrs. Rose Lee Bledson of Enid, 
Mrs. Clovis Rust of Portales, N.M., Mrs. Modell Hoover of Freemont, California 
and Mrs. Josephine Routh of Enid: two brothers, Otis Petree of Muleshoe, Texas 
and Allen Petree of Houston: three stepchildren, Oda Pruett of Portales, Pearl 
Mosley of Pampa, Texas and Mrs. Jewel McCampbell of Midland, Texas: twenty-six 
grandchildren: thirty-three great granchildren and two great great grandchildren.