This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JW.2ADE/7607 Message Board Post: Daily Independent newspaper Ridgecrest Ca Kern County March 22, 2005 GEORGE ARTHUR PRUITT 1913-2005 Ridgecrest resident George Artur Pruitt passed away Wednesday March 16, 2005 at Ridgecrest Regional Hospital. He was 91. Services will be private. Interment will be at Desert Lawn Memorial Park in Palmdale. Mr. Pruitt was born Oct. 25, 1913 in the Ozark Mountains of Missouri. He attended country schools in the Ozarks until the family moved to St. Louis, Mo. where he started a toolmakers apprenticeship at age 14. He joined the Navy when he was 20 and served aboard the battleship USS Texas as a machinist mate. During leave in 1937 he married Emmeline Wood of North Dakota in New York City. After being honorably discharged from the Navy he went to work in the shipyard at Norkolk, Va. during the war years. He then relocated to Long Beach and worked in the shipyard until he transferred to the machine shop at NOTS Pasadena. He moved to China Lake in 1954 and worked in the Michelson Laboratory machine shop where he was general toolmaker foreman until his retirement in 1969. After retirement he and Emmeline moved to Palmdale and into new careers as real estate brokers. Mr. Pruett was a real estate broker for 30 years and genuinely enjoyed his second occupation. He was preceded in death by his wife Emmeline Pruitt and his siter Ellen Kaltschnee. He is survived by his son George Pruitt of Ridgecrest, daughter Patricia Lawson of Glendale, brother David Pruitt of Ridgecrest, sister Adeline Breeding of St. Louis, Mo., sister Mildred Fullbright of St. Louis, Mo., grandsons Michael Pruitt and Ronald Pruitt of Ridgecrest and Michael Lawson of Glendale, granddaughters Karen Grant of Spanish Fork, Utah, Christine Harper of Santa Clarita, Laura Lawson of Illinois and Jamie Lawson of Los Angeles and 11 great-grandchildren. Arrangements and media information provided by Holland 7 Lyons Mortuary. News Review newspaper Ridgecrest CA March 23, 2005 GEORGE ARTHUR PRUITT George Arthur Pruitt of Ridgecrest died March 16, 2005 at Ridgecrest Regional Hospital. He was 91. Mr. Puritt was born Oct. 25, 1913 in the Ozarks of Missouri. He attended country schools until the family moved to St. Louis where he started a toolmaker's apprenticeship at age 14. He joined the Navy when he was 20 and served aboard the battleship USS Texas as a machinist mate. During leave in New York City in 1937 he married Emmeline Wood of North Dakota. After he was honorably discharged from the Navy he went to work in the shipyard at Norfolk, Va during the war years. He then relocated to Long Beach and worked in the shipyard until he transferred to the machine shop at the Naval Ordnance Test Station Pasadena Annex. Mr. Pruitt moved to China Lake in 1954 and worked in the Michelson Laboratory machine shop where he was general toolmaker foreman until his retirement in 1959. After retirement he and Emmeline moved to Palmdale and into new careers as real estate brokers. He was a broker for 30 years and genuinely enjoyed his second occupation. He is survived by his son George Pruitt of Ridgecrest, daughter Patricia Lawson of Glendale, brother David Pruitt of Ridgecrest, sisters Adeline Breeding of St. Louis, Mo., and Mildred Fullbright of St. Louis, grandchildren Michael Pruitt of Ridgecrest, Ronald Pruitt of Ridgecrest, Michael Lawson of Glendale, Karen Grant of Spanish Fork, Utah, Christine Harper of Santa Clarita, Laura Lawson of Illinois and Jamie Lawson of Los Angeles and 11 great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his wife Emmeline Pruitt and sister Ellen Kaltschnee. Interment will be at Desert Lawn Memorial Park in Palmdale with arrangements by Holland & Lyons Mortuary.