Obit of Christine June (CHOLKA) PRATER, 1950-1999
Born, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Surnames:  PRATER, CHOLKA
Source:  Joplin Globe-Joplin, Mo, January 21, 1999
Copyright:  Joplin Globe-Joplin, Mo.  Permission issued.  May NOT
be republished without permission from Joplin Globe.

NEOSHO, MO.—Christine June PRATER, 48, died Tuesday, January
19, 1999 at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis, Mo., after an illness since July
1998.

Mrs. Prater was born August 11, 1950, in Milwaukee, Wi.  She moved
to the area in 1956 from California.  She graduated from Neosho High
School in 1968.  She worked at Con-Agra in Neosho until her illness.
She enjoyed sewing, cross-stitch and gardening.  She was a Methodist.
She and Sam Prater were married June 1, 1968, in Neosho and he
survives.  She is also survived by 2 sons, Chad Prater, Joplin and Darren
Prater, Neosho; four brothers, Jerome P. Cholka, Jr., Milwaukee, Wi.,
Ronald Cholka, Joplin, Mo., Kenneth and Dennis Cholka, Neosho; four
Grandchildren, Meghan, Breann, Holden, and Hayden Prater.  She is
Preceded in death by her daughter, Angela Prater, December 12, 1991.

Services will be 10 a.m. Friday, January 22, 1999, at the Clark Funeral
Home Chapel of Memories, Rev. Terry Swagerty will officiate.  Burial
will be in the 100F Cemetery, Neosho.  Pallbearers will be Sam, Darren,
and Chad Prater, Kenneth, Ronald, Dennis and Jerome Cholka, and
Jerry McBride.

Friends may call until 6 p.m. Wednesday and from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Thursday, at the Clark Funeral Home, Neosho.

Contributions in memory of Mrs. Prater may be made to the Leukemia
Foundation, in care of the Clark Funeral Home, Neosho.  Services
directed by Clark Funeral Home, Neosho.