Harris Co. TX - Obit for Stewart M. Pruden

Submitted by Peggy B. Perazzo  pbperazzo@attbi.com

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(From the "Winters Express," 27 December 1962)

"Last rites held for Stewart M. Pruden Funeral  services  were  held
Saturday  morning  at  McNary's Chapel, Woodland,  for  Stewart  Mains
Pruden,  62,  who  passed  away in the Huntington Memorial Hospital,
Pasadena, on Tuesday, December 18. Rev.  Frank  Emitte, of the First
Baptist Church, Woodland, officiated at  the  ritese  and Mrs. P.F.
Phares was organist and accompanist for Mr. and Mrs. Merle Shields of
Rancho Cordova, who sang.

Casket  bearers  were  Jack  Vasey,  Joe  Doll, Jim Kramer, Ray Sears,
George Leggett and Irwin Clyma.

Mr.  Pruden,  a resident of Pasadena and a former resident of Winters,
was  the  son of the late Rev. J. Pruden, for many years pastor of the
Hopewell  Baptist  church  here,  later  the First Baptist church. The
deceased  was  a  member of the Masonic Lodge and Scottish Rite in San
Jose and Richmond.

He  is  survived  by his wife, Marguerite; a son, Stewart, San Jose; a
daughter,  Barbara Jean Pruden, Washington; his mother, Bertha Pruden,
of  Sacramento;  two  brothers, Dean Pruden, Houston, Texas, and Wayne
Pruden,  of  Modesto;  five  sisters;  Mrs. Lois Sotello and Mrs. Jean
Clark  both  of  Sacramento;  Mrs. Doris Delp of San Jose, Mrs. Maxine
Young  of Los Gatos and Mrs. Fern Griffith of Mountain view. There are
also five grandchildren."