Obituary and Card of Thanks:  John Elliot Pruitt, Feb 17, 1936

Contributed by Brenda Scott Hines
January 2011 and Mar 2015
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Bronte Enterprise, Coke County, TX - February 1936

Rites for Eliott Pruitt were held in Bronte. John El1iot Pruitt was 
long a resident of the Bronte country and for ten years was maintenance 
foreman on the Robert Lee to Bronte road. He died Monday at a Dallas 
Hospital and was buried in Fairview Cemetery in Bronte, Tuesday.
 
Mr. Pruitt had been in bad health for eight or ten weeks and had not been 
on his job for some time. About fifteen days ago he was taken to Dallas 
for treatment. He was found to have a tumor on the brain and surgeons were 
unable to save him through an operation.

Frank Keeney was in charge of funeral arrangements.

Mr. Pruitt was born June 22, 1891 in Alexander, Erath County and died 
February 17 in Dallas. He was a member of the Masonic lodge.

Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Dolllie Keeney Pruitt to whom he was married 
February l917, at Bronte. Others surviving include a daughter, Jean, 
father and stepmother;  Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Pruitt, two sisters, Mrs. Ida 
Rogers and Mrs. Ollie May Neatherlin, brother, Larkin W. Pruitt, two 
stepbrothers, Henry Robison of Lamesa and Maude Robison of Littlefield.
 
Services were held from Bronte Baptist church by Rev. Stuckley, Bronte.

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Bronte Enterprise, Coke County, TX - date unknown (about 1936)
PRUITT
Card of Thanks		
	We take this way of thanking all our dear friends and the good people 
generally of Bronte and elsewhere for all their kindnesses to us in the long 
illness and death of our dear one, Elliot Pruitt. You were all to us that 
the term  "friend" implies in aiding us while he lingered and when he was 
dead your ministries in putting his body away and your tender sympathies to 
us linger with us now and will continue to linger with us, to make our sorrow 
lighter.  No people in the world are better than you and our prayer is that God 
may graciously bless you, each and all, and when such hours shall be yours, 
may frends, such as you were to us, be near to help and comfort you.
Mrs. Dollie Pruitt and daughter.
Mr. and Mrs. W. R, Pruitt and children.
J. H. Roberson and family
L. A. Roberson and family 
and Mrs. Charles Wood.
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