Obit: Pratt, Vernon L. (1891 – 1976)

Transcriber: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 

Surnames: Pratt, Kringle, Peterson, Waters, Evans, Salzwedel, Wendort, Horan, Dill

---------Source: Owen Enterprise (Owen, Clark County, Wis.) 14 Jan 1976

Pratt, Vernon L. (30 May 1891 – 7 Jan 1976)

Services were conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Christian Missionary and Alliance Church in Curtiss for Vernon L. Pratt, 84, of Wausau, formerly of Route 1, Curtiss. He died Wednesday evening, January 7th, 1976 at Wausau.

Officiating was the Rev. Lester Kringle, pastor. Burial was made in the Holway Lutheran Church Cemetery at Medford.

Mr. Pratt was born May 30, 1891 in Monroe County, Wisconsin. He attended area schools and also took a short course in agriculture in Madison. His boyhood was spend in the vicinity of Shamrock, also spending two years farming at Hudson and one year at Beloit.

He married the former Christina Peterson on May 10, 1914, at Medford. They observed their golden wedding anniversary in 1964. After their marriage they spent a summer and two winters in 1927 and 1927, at Brattleboro, Vermont, where he worked in a machine shop. He retired in 1959

Mr. Pratt was a member of the Alliance Church of Curtiss and served as a member of the school board from 1922 to 1926.

He later married Marjorie Waters on September 7, 1968 at Greenwood. She survives.

Other survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Robert Evans, Edmonds, Wash., and Mrs. Naomi Salzwedel, Milwaukee; two step-daughters, Mrs. Leslie Wendort, Blackwood, New Jersey, and Mrs. Gladys Horan, Wausau; a brother, Wade, Black River Falls; two sisters, Mrs. Hazel Peterson, Black River Falls, and Mrs. Inez Dill, Tomah; three grandchildren, seven step-grandchildren, and three step-great-grandchildren.