PRUDEN FOUNDER KIN DIES AT ELKS HOME
PRUDEN, Aug. 14 (Special) - Harry Barnes Pruden, from whose family Pruden, Tenn. got its name, died at the Elks National Home in Bedford, Va., Saturday. Pruden, 81, in 1954 gave up his restaurant at Pruden to attend the needs of his wife, who was long ill.
Pruden's father, Thomas Pruden, came from England as a boy and formed the Pruden Coal and Coke Co. in that Tennessee-Kentucky mining border town in 1905. The father died in 1915.
Harry Pruden leaves a son, H.B. Pruden Jr. of Oak Ridge and a daughter, Mrs. Ray Thomas, Clairfield; sisters, Mrs. Herbert Acuff and Mrs. Rowand Webb, Knoxville; brother, Jim Pruden, Sarasota, Fla. A family graveside service will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Greenwood Cemetery.
PRUDEN, Aug. 14 (Special) - Harry Barnes Pruden, from whose family Pruden, Tenn. got its name, died at the Elks National Home in Bedford, Va., Saturday. Pruden, 81, in 1954 gave up his restaurant at Pruden to attend the needs of his wife, who was long ill.
Pruden's father, Thomas Pruden, came from England as a boy and formed the Pruden Coal and Coke Co. in that Tennessee-Kentucky mining border town in 1905. The father died in 1915.
Harry Pruden leaves a son, H.B. Pruden Jr. of Oak Ridge and a daughter, Mrs. Ray Thomas, Clairfield; sisters, Mrs. Herbert Acuff and Mrs. Rowand Webb, Knoxville; brother, Jim Pruden, Sarasota, Fla. A family graveside service will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Greenwood Cemetery.
PRUDEN FOUNDER KIN DIES AT ELKS HOME
PRUDEN, Aug. 14 (Special) - Harry Barnes Pruden, from whose family Pruden, Tenn. got its name, died at the Elks National Home in Bedford, Va., Saturday. Pruden, 81, in 1954 gave up his restaurant at Pruden to attend the needs of his wife, who was long ill.
Pruden's father, Thomas Pruden, came from England as a boy and formed the Pruden Coal and Coke Co. in that Tennessee-Kentucky mining border town in 1905. The father died in 1915.
Harry Pruden leaves a son, H.B. Pruden Jr. of Oak Ridge and a daughter, Mrs. Ray Thomas, Clairfield; sisters, Mrs. Herbert Acuff and Mrs. Rowand Webb, Knoxville; brother, Jim Pruden, Sarasota, Fla. A family graveside service will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Greenwood Cemetery.
PRUDEN, Aug. 14 (Special) - Harry Barnes Pruden, from whose family Pruden, Tenn. got its name, died at the Elks National Home in Bedford, Va., Saturday. Pruden, 81, in 1954 gave up his restaurant at Pruden to attend the needs of his wife, who was long ill.
Pruden's father, Thomas Pruden, came from England as a boy and formed the Pruden Coal and Coke Co. in that Tennessee-Kentucky mining border town in 1905. The father died in 1915.
Harry Pruden leaves a son, H.B. Pruden Jr. of Oak Ridge and a daughter, Mrs. Ray Thomas, Clairfield; sisters, Mrs. Herbert Acuff and Mrs. Rowand Webb, Knoxville; brother, Jim Pruden, Sarasota, Fla. A family graveside service will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Greenwood Cemetery.
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