Lloyd Arnold Prater

1894 - 1975  (80 years)

• Name	Lloyd Arnold Prater
  Born	22 Dec 1894	Colfax, Whitman, Wa.
  Gender	Male
  Died	30 Aug 1975	Spokane, Spikane Co., Wa.
  Record Change	12 Apr 2009
  Person ID	I35787	120k
  Last Modified	28 Jul 2015

  
  

  Father	John Milton Prater,   b. 10 Apr 1867, Salyersville, Magoffin Co., Ky. ,   d. St. Petersburg, Pinellas Co., Fla.
  Relationship	Natural
  Mother	Nettie V. Benton,   b. 05 Feb 1865, Villisca, Montgomery Co., Ia. ,   d. 12 Nov 1947, Sandpoint, Bonner Co., Ida.  (Age 82 years)
  Relationship	Natural
  Married	Colfax, Whitman Co., Wa.
  Family ID	F17771	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Lloyd Prater obit. Lloyd Arnold Prater, 80, died Saturday morning, August 30th in a Spokane convalescent center following 8 months of intermittent hospitalization at Bonner General and Sacred Heart Hospitals. A Memorial service will be held at Sandp;int United Methodist Church Wednesday, Sept., 3, at 11:30 a.m. Crematory services at Hazen and Jaeger in Spokane will be at the convenience of the family. Mr. Prater, grandson of Isaac Prter after whom Preater Mountain on the east side of Priest River is named, was born Dec. 22, 1891 at Colfax, Wa. and moved with his family to Pullman and thence to Priest River where the family was burned out in the holocaust of 1905. He was the son of John Milton and Nettie Benton Prater who moved in 1909 to Sandpoint and purchased the home in which the late Mrs. Prater had lived for many years and in which Lloyd Prater has lived since his mother's death. He grad;utated from Sandpoint high school and joined the U.S. Navy in which he served through World War I. Later he was in the electric and automotive industries in Detreoit, Mich. for many years. He retired and returned to his Bonner Co. residence where he has operated the family home as an apartment house. Prater was a member of Friendship Monsonic Lodge No. 417 in Detroit and of William D. Martin American Legion Post in Sandpoint. He is survived by numerous cousins in the Inland ?Empire and in the Marysville, area on the coast and servial elsewhere.