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/BUB.2ACI/6021 Message Board Post: WARD R. PRATT HUME - Ward R. PRATT of this community, died Wednesday (July 28, 1971) at the Wyoming County Community Hospital, Warsaw, after a brief illness. Born at Hume, March 2, 1899, he was a son of Fred and Mary SYMES PRATT. He was married to the former Onalee TABER, who died June 6, 1965. Mr. PRATT was a retired oil and gas distributor for the Fillmore area. He attended the Hume United Methodist Church; and was a member of the Warsaw Chapter, SPEBSQSA; and the Fillmore Fire Department. Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Donald (Jean) PRESTON of East Aurora; two grandchildren; three sisters, Mrs. Charles DAMON of Gainesville, Mrs Stephen PAYTASH of Little Genesee and Mrs. James BRESHNEY of Cuba; and several nieces and nephews. Friends are being received at the Kopler Funeral Home, 21 N. Genesee St., Fillmore, today from 2 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. Funeral services will be conducted there Friday (July 30, 1971) at 2:30 p.m. by the Rev. C. Burdette FULLER, minister of the Hume UM Church. Burial will be in Alger Cemetery in the Town of Hume. [Transcribed by Louise Y. Mills, 2003, from the obituary collection of Lenora Mills, Wiscoy, NY]