Former LaHarpe resident Raleigh Dale Prather, 75, died Thursday, March 3, 2011, at Homestead of Auburn Assisted Living in Auburn.
He was born Jan. 11, 1936, in Sulphur Springs, Ark., to Mose Alfred and Mary Marie (Harris) Prather. He moved to LaHarpe with his family where he grew up.
He married Patricia Swanson and they divorced later in life. He lived in the LaHarpe and Gas areas and worked a number of years as a lineman for the City of Iola Electrical Department. He also operated Prather’s Tree Service for several years.
He is survived by a son, Ronnie Prather, Olmstead, Ohio; two daughters, Marsha Waldo, Topeka, and Barbara Annotico, North Royalton, Ohio; two brothers, Dave, Meeker, Colo., and Earnest, Dayton, Ohio; a sister, Bonnie Pennington, Chanute; six grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
Two brothers, Robert and Joe, and five sisters, Violet Sherwood Johnson, Darlene Paddock, Millie Chambers, Betty Prather and Louise Prather, died earlier.
Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at Waugh-Yokum & Friskel Memorial Chapel in Iola. Chaplain Lloyd W. Houk will officiate. Burial will be in LaHarpe Cemetery.
Online condolences for the family may be left at iolafuneral.com.
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