This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Pratt, Flynn, Recar, Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lNB.2ACI/4342 Message Board Post: Funeral Mass for Raymond R. Pratt, 65, Star Route West, DeSoto, was at 10 o'clock Saturday morning, July 31, 1976, at St. Rose of Lima Church, with the Rev. Philip Krahman, associate pastor, officiating. Burial was in St. Joachim Cemetery, Old Mines. Arrangements were under the direction of Mahn Funeral Home of DeSoto. Born December 16, 1910 at Old Mines, Raymond R. Pratt was a son of David and Margaret (Flynn) Pratt. He resided in Washington County for 57 years until moving to the DeSoto area eight years ago. Mr. Pratt is earlier years was a farmer, then was employed as a truck driver for DeSoto Mining Company until retirement. He died July 29, 1976 at Jefferson Memorial Hospital, Festus. Survivors include: his wife, Angela M. (nee Recar) Pratt; five sons, Raymond D., Stanley J. and Gerald Pratt, St. Louis. Ronald Pratt of South Carolina and Louis Pratt, DeSoto; three daughters, Mrs. Gerald (Mary Angela) Voss, Festus, Mrs. Robert (Margaret Ann) Suiter and Celeste Pratte, both of DeSoto; and 19 grandchildren. He also leaves a brother, Chester Pratt, Richwoods, and five sisters, Mrs. Mary Schneiderhahn and Mrs. Orville (Irene) Hildegrandt, both of St. Louis, Mrs. Glennon (Catherine) Daugherty, Blackwell, Mrs. Stella Dinkebein, Farmington and Mrs. Paul (Dora) Charboneau, Vineland. MF Job # 049322, Jan 1, 1976 - Dec 30, 1976, copied at High Ridge Library from the Newspaper.