Monticello GI killed in car crash
EWING, Mo. — Spec. 4 John Lavern Prather, 25, of Monticello, who had recently returned from his second tour of duty with the Army in Vietnam, died of injures he suffered in a car accident Saturday (Nov. 13, 1971) at 10:10 p. m. a mile west of here on
Missouri 6.
Prather was dead on arrival at St. Mary Hospital in Quincy at 10:55 p.m.
Police said Prather was driving at a high rate of speed and his car left the road and
overturned several times in a ditch.
Services will be held Tuesday at 3 p.m. in the Hudson-Rimer Funeral Home in Edina. The
Rev. Herbert Alexander will officiate and burial will be a Knox City Cemetery.
Mr. Prather was born in Kirksville, Oct. 17, 1946, a son of William Henry and Ruby Wood Prather. He was a 1966 graduate of Knox County R 1 High School in Edina and was a member of the United Methodist Church. He married Brenda Lee Hinton April 15, 1967 in Monticello.
Surviving are the widow; the parents of Knox City; a daughter, Melissa, 2, at home; two brothers, William L. of Mesa, Ariz., and Hillis Dale of Knox City; a sister, Mrs. Betty L. Hitchcock of Knox City, and a grandmother, Mrs. Edith Wood of Knox City.
Page 10 of Quincy Herald Whig, published in Quincy, Illinois on Monday, November 15th, 1971
EWING, Mo. — Spec. 4 John Lavern Prather, 25, of Monticello, who had recently returned from his second tour of duty with the Army in Vietnam, died of injures he suffered in a car accident Saturday (Nov. 13, 1971) at 10:10 p. m. a mile west of here on
Missouri 6.
Prather was dead on arrival at St. Mary Hospital in Quincy at 10:55 p.m.
Police said Prather was driving at a high rate of speed and his car left the road and
overturned several times in a ditch.
Services will be held Tuesday at 3 p.m. in the Hudson-Rimer Funeral Home in Edina. The
Rev. Herbert Alexander will officiate and burial will be a Knox City Cemetery.
Mr. Prather was born in Kirksville, Oct. 17, 1946, a son of William Henry and Ruby Wood Prather. He was a 1966 graduate of Knox County R 1 High School in Edina and was a member of the United Methodist Church. He married Brenda Lee Hinton April 15, 1967 in Monticello.
Surviving are the widow; the parents of Knox City; a daughter, Melissa, 2, at home; two brothers, William L. of Mesa, Ariz., and Hillis Dale of Knox City; a sister, Mrs. Betty L. Hitchcock of Knox City, and a grandmother, Mrs. Edith Wood of Knox City.
Page 10 of Quincy Herald Whig, published in Quincy, Illinois on Monday, November 15th, 1971
Monticello GI killed in car crash
EWING, Mo. — Spec. 4 John Lavern Prather, 25, of Monticello, who had recently returned from his second tour of duty with the Army in Vietnam, died of injures he suffered in a car accident Saturday (Nov. 13, 1971) at 10:10 p. m. a mile west of here on
Missouri 6.
Prather was dead on arrival at St. Mary Hospital in Quincy at 10:55 p.m.
Police said Prather was driving at a high rate of speed and his car left the road and
overturned several times in a ditch.
Services will be held Tuesday at 3 p.m. in the Hudson-Rimer Funeral Home in Edina. The
Rev. Herbert Alexander will officiate and burial will be a Knox City Cemetery.
Mr. Prather was born in Kirksville, Oct. 17, 1946, a son of William Henry and Ruby Wood Prather. He was a 1966 graduate of Knox County R 1 High School in Edina and was a member of the United Methodist Church. He married Brenda Lee Hinton April 15, 1967 in Monticello.
Surviving are the widow; the parents of Knox City; a daughter, Melissa, 2, at home; two brothers, William L. of Mesa, Ariz., and Hillis Dale of Knox City; a sister, Mrs. Betty L. Hitchcock of Knox City, and a grandmother, Mrs. Edith Wood of Knox City.
Page 10 of Quincy Herald Whig, published in Quincy, Illinois on Monday, November 15th, 1971
EWING, Mo. — Spec. 4 John Lavern Prather, 25, of Monticello, who had recently returned from his second tour of duty with the Army in Vietnam, died of injures he suffered in a car accident Saturday (Nov. 13, 1971) at 10:10 p. m. a mile west of here on
Missouri 6.
Prather was dead on arrival at St. Mary Hospital in Quincy at 10:55 p.m.
Police said Prather was driving at a high rate of speed and his car left the road and
overturned several times in a ditch.
Services will be held Tuesday at 3 p.m. in the Hudson-Rimer Funeral Home in Edina. The
Rev. Herbert Alexander will officiate and burial will be a Knox City Cemetery.
Mr. Prather was born in Kirksville, Oct. 17, 1946, a son of William Henry and Ruby Wood Prather. He was a 1966 graduate of Knox County R 1 High School in Edina and was a member of the United Methodist Church. He married Brenda Lee Hinton April 15, 1967 in Monticello.
Surviving are the widow; the parents of Knox City; a daughter, Melissa, 2, at home; two brothers, William L. of Mesa, Ariz., and Hillis Dale of Knox City; a sister, Mrs. Betty L. Hitchcock of Knox City, and a grandmother, Mrs. Edith Wood of Knox City.
Page 10 of Quincy Herald Whig, published in Quincy, Illinois on Monday, November 15th, 1971
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