Marilyn Pritchard
April 25, 1930 — September 17, 2017
Marilyn Lummus Pritchard, age 87, of Artesia, MS, passed away Septmber
17, 2017, at her residence. Funeral services will be Tuesday, September 19,
2017, at 11:00 AM at Artesia United Methodist Church with Rev. Gene Merkl
officiating. The interment will immediately follow at Artesia Cemetery.
Visitation will be from 9:30 AM until the time of the service at the church.
Memorial Funeral Home & Crematory is in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Pritchard was born April 25, 1930, in the Self Creek Community of
Oktibbeha County to the late Y. C. Lummus and Bessie Critz Lummus Josey.
She moved with her family at the age of eight to Artesia where she lived
until her death. Mrs. Pritchard graduated from Artesia / Mayhew High School
and began work on the Gulf Mobile and Ohio Railroad in Artesia as a
telegrapher at the age of sixteen, later becoming freight agent. She
retired after fourty four years of service from the Kansas City Southern
Railroad. Mrs. Pritchard was a member of the Artesia United Methodist
Church. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her
husband, Robert Lyle Pritchard, and brother, Charles Lummus.
Mrs. Pritchard leaves behind to mourn her passing, children, Robert
Pritchard, Jr., Caryl Pritchard, and Daryl Pritchard, daughter-in-law, Susie
Bradshaw Pritchard, grandsons, Austin Barrett, Brad Cook, and Justin
Pritchard, great granddaughter, Payslie Barrett, sisters, Ada Pierce and Eva
Vondran, and step sister, Sybil Josey Lummus. Sharing her loss are special
nieces Bitty Foster Lindsey and Claudia Bannister, as well as dear friend
and neighbor, Jewell Gentry.
Pallbearers will be family and friends.
The family requests that memorials be made to the Artesia Cemetery
Fund, P.O. Box 82, Artesia, MS, 39756.
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